It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

To be in Vogue has to mean something

If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.

Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.