While the work on NºD issue was coming to an end, by chance I happened to see the famous scene from Funny Face where Miss Prescott suddenly realises drastic changes have to be made…

- ‘Now hear this! I simply CANNOT release this issue the way it is. In the sixty years of Quality Magazine this hits rock bottom.
If I let this go through I will have FAILED the American Woman.’
-’Oh no Miss Prescott, you mustn’t say that!!!’

-’The Great American Woman who stands up there naked waiting for ME to tell HER what to wear. It doesn’t speak and if it doesn’t speak to ME it won’t speak to ANYONE. A magazine must be like a human being. If it comes into a home it must contribute, it just can’t lie around.
A magazine must have BLOOD and BRAINS and BEZAZZ… This is just paper and I if I send paper to the American Woman I will have let her down.’

-’Oh no Miss Prescott, you mustn’t say that!!!’

-’Yes! D for down, D for dreary, D for dull, for depressive, dismal, deadly!’

NºD is my paper. I hope it will speak or at least whisper to you…
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

[Quote from Funny Face, starring Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson as Miss Prescott.
Directed by Stanley Donen, written by Leonard Gershe, produced by Roger Edens.
© 1956 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.]