Top 50 Christian Dior Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.”

— Christian Dior

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2. “Make me a fragrance that smells like love.”

— Christian Dior

3. “After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.”

— Christian Dior

4. “My dream? To make women happier and more beautiful.”

— Christian Dior

5. “Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don’t count without good grooming.”

— Christian Dior

6. “Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.”

— Christian Dior

7. “Real woman should be capricious.”

— Christian Dior

8. “There is no such thing as an ugly woman – there are only the ones who do not know how to make themselves attractive.”

— Christian Dior

9. “Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.”

— Christian Dior

10. “Without proper foundations, there can be no fashion.”

— Christian Dior

11. “Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.”

— Christian Dior

12. “Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance.”

— Christian Dior

13. “Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don’t show.”

— Christian Dior

14. “Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.”

— Christian Dior

15. “On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.”

— Christian Dior

16. “Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.”

— Christian Dior

17. “In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”

— Christian Dior

18. “No elegant woman follows fashion slavishly.”

— Christian Dior

19. “Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.”

— Christian Dior

20. “You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.”

— Christian Dior

21. “By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.”

— Christian Dior

22. “Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.”

— Christian Dior

23. “Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style.”

— Christian Dior

24. “Black is the most slimming of all Colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any Time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.”

— Christian Dior

25. “Don’t buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.”

— Christian Dior

26. “A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.”

— Christian Dior

27. “Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.”

— Christian Dior

28. “You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.”

— Christian Dior

29. “Bright reds – scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry – are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.”

— Christian Dior

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

— Christian Dior

31. “I create so that each and every woman is the most beautiful.”

— Christian Dior

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

— Christian Dior

33. “My dream is to save them from nature.”

— Christian Dior

34. “If you have hooked legs, wear big decolte.”

— Christian Dior

35. “Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.”

— Christian Dior

36. “There is certainly a red for everyone.”

— Christian Dior

37. “You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman.”

— Christian Dior

38. “Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.”

— Christian Dior

39. “It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.”

— Christian Dior

40. “The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.”

— Christian Dior

41. “The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.”

— Christian Dior

42. “The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.”

— Christian Dior

43. “Every bite you eat stays in mouth for two minutes, for two hours in stomach and for two month on hips.”

— Christian Dior

44. “You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.”

— Christian Dior

45. “High heels? Painful pleasure.”

— Christian Dior

46. “No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.”

— Christian Dior

47. “I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

— Christian Dior

48. “Deep in every heart slumbers a dream.”

— Christian Dior

49. “Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.”

— Christian Dior

50. “The less you can afford for your frocks, the more care you must take with your accessories.”

— Christian Dior