The best thing I ever bought is a vintage Oscar de la Renta short gingham dress that I wore to my rehearsal dinner the night before my wedding.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.

Everything is about color. If you look at magazines and advertising and television, the thing you remember is the color.

I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

The mixture of weird textures and organic surfaces creates an interesting dialogue.

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

I love to travel and to be inspired by new things, so everything is always new. I've never done the same bathroom or the same kitchen a second time. It's challenging, and I like to be challenged.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

...he will be our friend for always and always and always.