Raf Simons Quotes

Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

I have always been a fan of Alex Perry's work. His gowns are so beautiful, elegant, and always uniquely crafted to the woman wearing them on the red carpet. They are a true piece of art-meets-couture.

A queen does not wear clothes off the runways.

As long as I have fashion memories, Schiaparelli has been there.

I'm influenced a lot by Chanel and by what Karl Lagerfeld has done.

The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty.

All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright.

I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black.

My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.

Chanel is here forever. She changed fashion, she changed culture, and she changed how people dress.

I was in love with Lagerfeld's designs.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.