Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

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.

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

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

The personality is a work of art.