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

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

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

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

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

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

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