Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.

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

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.

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.

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

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

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