“Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.”

“The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.”

“I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.”

“People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.”

“I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.”

“I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.”

“I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots”

“Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldnt exist anymore.”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”