Quotes About Balenciaga

#1. Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Chaim Weizmann

#2. I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

Hamish Bowles

#3. Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.

Diana Vreeland

#4. In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Diana Vreeland

#5. The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.

Michele Bachmann

#6. Don't improve it into a flop!

Samuel Goldwyn

#7. Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.

Diana Vreeland

#8. Elegance is elimination.

Cristobal Balenciaga

#9. The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

Demetri Martin

#10. Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.

Christian Dior

#11. A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

Cristobal Balenciaga

#12. There's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.

Hubert De Givenchy

#13. What I like about eyewear is that it can work with a lot of different looks. You can wear it with a Balenciaga dress, or something that is straight and very quirky.

Karen Walker

#14. Because when I look at you, I forget everything. I lose all track of what I'm saying or doing. I can see only your eyes.

Jennifer Ashley

#15. If you put a money sign in front of your eyes, how will you see the world?

Debasish Mridha

#16. I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.

Johnny Weir

#17. Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

Oscar De La Renta

#18. I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

Tom Petty

#19. Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient,

Pierre Cardin

#20. A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Cristobal Balenciaga

#21. I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

Melanie Laurent

#22. Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#23. A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Danny DeVito

#24. Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Diana Vreeland

#25. There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

Big Sean

#26. A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

Mario Testino