But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I look for friends who make me laugh.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines