I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.

Nobody wants to be the same as anybody else.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

It's just as important to let go and let somebody do what they're best at and other times, I'm very determined to get exactly what I know we need. It's that balance.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilightNo I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

I'm afraid it will never be perfect again. I am indelibly stained. Forever redefined, but blurred around the edges.

Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

The start to a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars.

Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.

I never eat before breakfast.