Reported by childhood friend Vivienne Lasky, quoted by biographer Jerry Oppenheimer in Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor In Chief, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-3123-231-07, p. 51 .

You either know fashion or you don't.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Time…

Reported, quoted by Emma Brockes; May 27, 2006; 'What lies beneath'; The Guardian; retrieved March 23, 2007.