I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

The right ingredients can create a legend.