Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

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.

Wear flats. You're short. It's much cooler not to pretend.

All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.