Happy family gives you a brick-by-brick foundation that you build on for the rest of your life. And then it teaches you so many things that are impor…

- Polly Allen Mellen

It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in you a sense of responsibility. I also thin…

- Polly Allen Mellen

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

- Polly Allen Mellen

Style doesn't have seasons.

- Polly Allen Mellen

You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else.

- Polly Allen Mellen

You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down.

- Polly Allen Mellen

I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.

- Polly Allen Mellen

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had t…

- Polly Allen Mellen

I like people with guts. I want to feel in the clothes what the designer is really feeling when they're alone with themselves and their fabrics and t…

- Polly Allen Mellen