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

I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

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.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

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