I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.