The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

Silence, nothing is better.

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.