If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.

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

I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

I surround myself with a talented group of people that are opinionated and interesting. I try to remain very open to what others have to say.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality