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

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.

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

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

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

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