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

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

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

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

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

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

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