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.

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

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

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

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

I spent my life making fashion an art form.