I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

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.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!