Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.

This is an attempt by the city to add apples to oranges.

They are clothes for the American woman, for every aspect of her life, and every part of the country, ... There's no shock, very little to dazzle, just beautifully made clothes, beautiful fabrics in simple designs. Increasingly, I hear people say they can't find anything to wear, so that's what this is about.

There's never been so much money. Certainly, we've never known such an affluent society.