The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something

My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God.

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts