We are living in such a troubled world that fashion seems completely irrelevant. Yet...it's a very, very mysterious thing. Why all of a sudden do people like yellow? Why all of a sudden do people wear combat boots?

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.

If you're not sure what to wear, if you don't know how everyone else is going to be, then just be at your most beautiful.

I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Personal style is accepting who you are.