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

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

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

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

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

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.