Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

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

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.

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