A.R. Von Quotes

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.

Don't let any of your good habits get boring.

It's more important to be healthy and of good spirit than it is to be thin, just as it's more important to be an attractive woman than a fashionable one.

What you eat is everything. What you eat is what you are.

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.

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

If you're trying to lose weight, you just have to eat less. I mean that.

Water is life is love is life is water.

We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable.

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.

You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Fashion Week is so important for designers.

Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

I loved the seventies.

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.

I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

The whole point about beauty is its imperfection.

I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out an jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week.

The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?