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.

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.

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.

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.

There was no slow build. No peaceful meander to the summit. It was like sheet lighting stretching across a stormy sky—beautiful and blinding. I leaned forward and seized his mouth with mine.

That's quite gallant of you. After you've ignored me for the better part of a week, like a boy half your age with twice your charm.

I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab.

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.