French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

We all look for lost time.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

All societies end up wearing masks.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.