The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

You can actually be intimate with the universe.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.