My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

Poverty is the mother of invention

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.

That has been the same [my opinion on deportation], correct. But, again, you have to start with baby steps.

Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are we repulsed.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.