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

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.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

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

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

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