The first painting that I realised I liked was ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I’m in the city.
A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman – it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.
Money doesn’t buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.
I have a responsibility to the woman of today – to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful.
Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I’m a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.
I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.
It’s important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn’t only what you wear, it’s what you project.
All women like to have their clothes admired, and those that deny it are lying.
I didn’t long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.
Politics are private. I don’t understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.
Intuition is a strong feminine quality.
When I was living in Los Angeles, I always booked a moisturizing milk-and-honey massage the day before flying to Spain. It was heaven – I never got dry plane skin or felt stiff from sitting in one position.
You can wear them with anything. It’s the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don’t get tired of it.
I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don’t mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.
Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery!
Fashion is a dream. It’s difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it’s not easy, but nothing is easy in life.