Our customer wants fashion, but fashion that fits her. She views herself as younger ? the 50-year-old woman today thinks of herself as 40.

Our total February comparable-store sales results were significantly impacted by the major snowstorm that swept across much of the country in the middle of the month.

Did you see how she ran?

Today, fashion is really about sensuality - how a woman feels on the inside. In the eighties women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies - they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

We're finishing up the year in blazing fashion and, I think, starting out next year looking really, really good - without mentioning any names.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.