I'd rather be relevant than cool.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

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.

I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.

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

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.