Birth: June 18, 1924
It's great advice - to open your eyes, have a little humility, and let go of ego. I think that instills in you a sense of responsibility. I also thin….
I think that some people have wonderful spots. I think that Karl Lagerfeld has a wonderful spot designing for Chanel. They really just let him go. I ….
I think movies also played a part in my interest in fashion. I've also always been hooked on the movies. From my early teens on, I always had my favo….
You cannot squelch what's happening at the moment - you cannot put a lid on it and squash it down..
Happy family gives you a brick-by-brick foundation that you build on for the rest of your life. And then it teaches you so many things that are impor….
I like people with guts. I want to feel in the clothes what the designer is really feeling when they're alone with themselves and their fabrics and t….
You can squint and see something else, or something will come forward in the paint. You'll always see something else..
I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had t….
Style doesn't have seasons..
I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!.
I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward..
I was fascinated looking at John Galliano's couture. They're just extraordinary extravaganzas and I love it. I love looking at it because it's like g….
There are certain people who hang onto nostalgia and I wish they wouldn't. I wish the young beautiful actresses and other people - I wish they would ….
I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at hi….
I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life..
I think there a lot of great photographers working right now in the 2010. At the same time I do occasionally feel a great disappointment in some of t….
I cannot imagine what an influence a five-week trip to the Orient had on me. I mean, the culture, the absorption of the Japanese way of life, the Jap….
One day, Sally Kirkland said to Diana Vreeland, who was the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar at the time, "I have a young woman I want you to meet. ….
That's why you have to keep your mind open - so that you can be given the privilege to have five weeks in Japan and take all of that in. I mean, that….
I will never get tired of looking at works by Pablo Picasso. I will never get tired of looking at work by Francis Bacon or Henry Moore or Francisco G….
When you think about Balenciaga muse and model Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon - I mean, you look at their mother Jane Birkin, and what they hav….