She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.
Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.
I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.
I’m not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent.
I’m very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It’s one of the silliest things ever.
I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
I haven’t had any plastic surgery – despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don’t think of that as plastic surgery any more.
Moving fashion used to be one of my chief goals. It’s not necessarily any more. Fashion needs to change when life changes. You only need to move fashion forward when there’s a reason to move fashion forward.
I suppose, yes, I’ve been guilty of provocation but it’s also just common sense marketing – put a bottle of scent in a woman’s cleavage, or between her thighs – and men will notice.
Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that’s just innate.
Once upon a time we did not focus on a president’s private life.
September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write, ‘Friday, Nov. 8. Three o’clock. Have a genius creative idea.’
A few times in my life I’ve had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.
Students in the ’60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.
You have to love what you do to the point that you can’t imagine doing anything else with your life.
I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don’t sell online because on the computer they don’t read like anything.
I don’t do shows. I don’t have reviews. I’m not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.
I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.