When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

I am more used to seeing my work like a big collection, and only part of it is being shown.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

Without doing anything physical you can use the hands of your mind to change the world.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

The second you realize you're not alienated, that makes you empowered.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!