I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.