I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

Six feet three in her stocking feet, LWren Scott was every inch a great lady.

In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life.

With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.