The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

Where would fashion be without literature?

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.