Elegance Is No Longer Significant; Clothes Have

I'd Really Like To Be In Closer Contact With Life. I'm A Little Too Distant, I Guess. I Like To Place Myself Outside.

Haute Couture Consists Of Secrets Whispered From Generation To Generation, If, In Ready-to-wear, A Garment Is Manufactured According To Standard Sizes, The Haute Couture Garment Adapts To Any Imperfection In Order To Eliminate It.

I Like To Watch The Way A Model Moves In My Clothes, The Way She Gives Them Life, Or If They Are Wrong, Stillborn, The Way Her Life Rejects Them.

There Are Women Who Have Completely Transformed My View Of Fashion.

I Pass For A Hypersensitive, Reclusive Neurotic, Which I May Well Be, But I Hope The Year Won't Come When My Anxieties And Fatigue Will Destroy My Love Of This Life, Of All The Things That Inspire Me--a Line Of Music, A Face In A Vermeer Portrait, A Character In An Opera, Or A Model Born In Harlem.