How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.
I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
I find NY very inspiring, there is an amazing energy and flow of creativity in NY like nowhere else.
Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.
I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.
I love working in the markets, I love working with fabric. So I'm not that conditioned to one thing.
For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.
Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.
During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.
The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'
I love to dance, and I love to see people dance. It is good exercise. It gives you a kind of energy.
I think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult.
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.
What you see on the runway is designed and created in America. That's something we're very proud of.
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.