If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

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

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.

I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.

It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems).

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.