I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

I watch women continuously. I want them to look beautiful, I am not interested in making them funny, but just beautiful. They have got to look marvelous to please their own men.

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.