A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.