Christian Dior

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

Buildings are forms of performances.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.