It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.