You don't win friends with salad.
We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.
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.
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
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.
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
People think I don't like interviews but I don't mind speaking about proper and interesting stuff. When it's stupid stuff to build your image and you are told to mention this and mention that, I hate it.
Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.