Designer Quotes

The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.

One of my favorite colors is no color at all.

My dad was my Little League coach and my Cub Master.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

I grew up as one of six kids.

Cotton is my life.

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.

I don't think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn't love - art or anything else.

Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.

I believe that we were very, very lucky that it went that way.

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.