The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.

The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.

You must always keep your eyes open. Beauty finds you that way.

For me it’s always been about New York. It’s where fashion begins and ends. It is who we are.

Style is what one creates….glamour is a state of mind.

I have a responsibility to the woman of today – to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

It is late at night and someone across the way is playing La Vie En Rose; it is the French way of saying I’m looking at the world through rose colored glasses and it says everything I feel. I have learned so many things, father, not just how to make vichyssoise or calf’s head with sauce vinaigrette, but a much more important recipe. I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life, or from love, either.