Probably the most important piece of advice that I've ever gotten is to develop your mind. I left school very young and I always regretted it.

It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.'

I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.

I really learned a lot from collecting clothes because I got to go back into the history of fashion and fashion photography and jewelry. It changed how I felt about fashion and about what I did forever because I used to look a little bit down on myself for it.