My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.
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.
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.
In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
I spent my life making fashion an art form.
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.