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.

You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

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

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

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.