The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.
If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.
