Forget all you know & learn something every day.

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

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

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

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.

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.