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

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

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

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.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

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.