You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

New York is all about people and the things people make.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

I think the key to passion, to zeal, is gratitude. Or to put it another way, the fuel to motivate is gratitude.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.