I spent my life making fashion an art form.

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

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

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

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

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.