We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.

Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

It's better to be in love than watch it.

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.