True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart to relieve it. True humanity appertains rather to the mind than to the nerves, and prompts men to use real and active endeavors to execute the actions which it suggests.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

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.

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

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.

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

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