My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

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.

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

I don't know what "normal" means, anyway.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.