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

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

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

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

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

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

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