It is nice to have valid competition, it pushes you to do better.

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

I don’t believe in good taste.

I want always to be positive.

Life is precious, and that is how I feel. And my shows must be about what I feel. If not, they are about nothing.

“I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

I think it’s the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

It’s not the quality of the sketch. It’s the quality of the idea.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

I never fall down. I always fight.

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

I want to be a designer for my time.

Designing came to me. I didn’t have to move.

Trollope is endlessly gripping, though it's rather crunchy granola: you chomp your way resolutely through it, and it's worth it because the story is so good.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat.