Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of taste and the fitness of things, and an overstuffed closet is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel."

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.