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

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.

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

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

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

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