Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

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

and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

What is even more important than developing intuition is cultivating the sense of adventure and discovery in life.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

You don't study photography, you just do it.

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

I really get a chance to be a normal kid.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.