It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.

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

Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal. You either have it or you don't, but I don't think it's the end of the world if you don't have it!

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.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.