I spent my life making fashion an art form.

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Self confidence is the greatest courage for any success.

When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

I can't believe we really made it, I'm partly surprised.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.