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

Design is an unknown.

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.

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

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

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