Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill)