I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!

Queen Elizabeth of England is the real fashion icon of the century. And she has a sense of humor.

In the beginning, my first clients were Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, and all different types of women.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good

Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly.

Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.

I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.

I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Fashion is ruthless the way every three months you have to think about everything all over again.

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.

Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.

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