When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

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.

I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when you are casting, you just choose the most beautiful girl you can find.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman.