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

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

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

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

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

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

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

Design is an unknown.

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

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.

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

A little holiday spirit lives forever in everyone. Test your own holiday spirit. Give away all of it you can. You'll see, it comes right back to you.

May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.