Parents, you know, can be terrible.

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.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

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