I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.