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Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.
The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it.
Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.
We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!
Suddenly, Dallas has become a big part of my life, and now I feel like I'm part of the fabric of the community here.
I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.
I like the mix of something farmlike and something futuristic and artsy mixed together. It's kind of both my worlds.
Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections - I never wanted to be a businessman.
I have no idea why, but I find that men make more of an impact on me in films than women - even very beautiful ones.
The greatest legacy that I can have is to build a brand that lives beyond me and stays true to the DNA of the brand.
The first item I designed for a real person was when I was about 10 and I made my first item of clothing for myself.
I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot.
People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'
You cannot do something just for the money. You have to do things you believe in and eventually you will make money.
My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.
I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.
In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.
There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different.
Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'
Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
I went to an all-girls school in a uniform and always got detention for wearing colorful boxer shorts under my kilt.
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.
For me, Lancome was more than just a brand. There was something very nostalgic about the name, about the whole story.
Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.
Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.
People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
I just think it's great to show a gown that's $8,000 and a shoe that's, like, $25 - but still look fabulous together.
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.
The effort you put into anything when you're a designer is 100% because it's all about what you get back out from it.
My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.
That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.
To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.
I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.
If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.