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.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

We continue to say hi to those we've lost, and for a little while at least, the world down here feels a little less dark.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

I would love to win an Oscar.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent