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The rich live the same all over the world.

— Christian Dior

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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

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