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

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."

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

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.

I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.

The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.

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