Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

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 went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.