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

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.

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.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

Death whispers your name to me.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things.

What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.