The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.