Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

We all look for lost time.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

The world needs some excitement from fashion.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

Hey, princess of Popsicles! Queen of curlicue cones.

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.