Technology allows us to do many things, but it is always important to combine it with traditional handcrafts and, in fact, use technology to replicate dying arts so that they are not lost.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Work for money, design for love.

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—

The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals

A great accomplishment shouldn't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.