I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

...when she wakes up, there is silence, as though the day has held its breath.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall

All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective