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

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.

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

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.

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

Accessories are key - nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades - look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

In reflecting on our problems, we should include ourselves.

At times some may think that no one cares--but someone always cares! Your Heavenly Father will not leave you to struggle alone, but stands ever ready to help.