Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.

Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is amazing. The human narrative you get out of "War and Peace" is universal.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist.

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.