The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

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.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

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

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?

Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.