Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can’t explain.
I still appreciate individuality. Style is much more interesting than fashion, really. Attitude is everything. It’s really easy to get colors right. It’s really hard to get black – and neutrals – right. If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
- I’ve treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
- I think it’s an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.
- I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
- You’re only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
Attitude is everything. You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes. I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top. Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
War taught me that not everything is glamorous. I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
I get ideas about what’s essential when packing my suitcase. Fashion is made to become unfashionable.- I design from instinct. It’s the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed.
- Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut. Fashion should be fun. It shouldn’t be labelled intellectual. Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.
fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening
