It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

I make clothes, women make fashion.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

What a rebellious act it is to love yourself naturally in a world of fake appearances.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.

When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.