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

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.

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

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Vision without execution is daydreaming.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.