Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.

Macrame is effortless.

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures, no matter how foolish and desperate they act.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

It's a falsehood to state that francophone communities are thriving.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

Sing songs that none have sung

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

Sometimes it was so easy to forget that I was kissing a vampire.