Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Work for money, design for love.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

Don't beat yourself up, " said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion...

Tonight was about fathers. Vince was going to kill hers for murdering his.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Being offended by things is the world's big hobby at the moment. It's almost taken over from wearing goatee beards.

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

Can we go back to the part about Moroi girls hanging out in LA?" asked Adrian hopefully. "Can you direct me to some of the…oh, let’s say, more open-minded ones?