You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

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.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

Rejection allowed me to appreciate the beauty of acceptance.

I’m coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!”-Skye yelling back to Hagan.

There is nothing more boring than a bored person.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

I'm a really big surfer, and I have also been playing a ton of volleyball on the beach on the weekends.