The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.