The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

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.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Too much good taste can be boring

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

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.

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.