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.

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

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Every girl in the world should have geisha training

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.