Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

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.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I started out in the ministry, went to college, started as a pastor, pastored for basically 25 years. That was a good time, I really enjoyed it.

Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.