Fashion designer Quotes by Madeleine Vionnet

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial…

— Madeleine Vionnet

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

— Madeleine Vionnet

If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.

— Madeleine Vionnet

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

— Madeleine Vionnet

“When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to”

— Madeleine Vionnet

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

— Madeleine Vionnet

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,

— Madeleine Vionnet