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• You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into…
• All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,
• Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only…
• It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
• In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.
• There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
• So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
• He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own…
• The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus…
• True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a…
• The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.
• Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

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