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.

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

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

I think your imagination is your reality

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

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

You can see and feel everything in clothes.