I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.