Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.
Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?
I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.
If I wasn't a designer I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache and I will give you a dress and we both make you feel good.
I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.
What is beautiful for you may not be beautiful to someone else. Or whatever is beautiful here may not be beautiful there and what is sometimes beautiful today is not necessarily beautiful tomorrow. Perhaps this is the story of fashion and what makes it move forward, the fact that there is no decision whatsoever with what’s wrong.
I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.
What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation.
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
I barely finish one pre-collection before I must start on another. Sales start, but I am already elsewhere creatively. The men's show is being prepared, but we also need to think about accessories, perfumes and other items. In sum, I never stop.
There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.
I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.
I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.
A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
