Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.

I'm not in the fashion business; I'm in the beauty business.

I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.