The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

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.

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

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.

Whether your transformation happens through trauma, surprise, or intention, the process begins because of a growing need for change.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Was he still, somehow, watching over her?

a woman's heart has no wrinkles.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

Well Web services are nothing more than a way for users to interact with applications.

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women's Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.

There's nothing weak about being subject to something.