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

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

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.

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

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

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.