When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

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

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

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.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

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.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.