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

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.

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

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.

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

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.