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

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

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

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

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

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

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