"The detail is as important as the essential……" — Christian Dior

"The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit."

— Christian Dior

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52 Quotes by Christian Dior

Christian Dior has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are…
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but…
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.
My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female…
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.
The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
The less you can afford for your frocks, the more care you must take with your accessories
Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.
You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost…
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance.…

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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. — Sitting Bull
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. — Leo Buscaglia
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking… — Raymond Chandler
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the… — Hugo Chavez
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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