Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.

You never forget people who make you laugh.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.