I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

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.

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

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.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.