I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.