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

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

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

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

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

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

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.