Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.

Some people need sequins, others don't.

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.