The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it.

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.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.