You have to want to dare being a model. You have to dare or you don't go that step further. You have to be willing to stretch - and to not only be wi….

I loved the masculine style of dressing of Katharine Hepburn, who came from the same town that I came from. I was fascinated by the way she wore trou….

I think the reason for vulgarity is because of the freedom that there is now to do certain things, and a lack of sophistication on the part of some p….

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….

When I graduated from school, World War II was still going on. At the time, my eldest sister, Nancy, was working in New York City at Lord & Taylor, a….

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 think that there are people who go to the best stores, and they have money, so money is no object, but they can't find a pretty dress - and I think….

I do think there is a lack of modernity at the moment - and I don't even like that word, modernity, anymore. There aren't enough designers today anyw….

How many times have people said to me, "I think those pants are incredible, but I could never wear them." Well, why not? What's so different about th….

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….

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….

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….

I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life..

Steven Meisel is completely consumed with what interests him. He does what he wants to do, and when something doesn't interest him, he's not afraid t….

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward..

They were enormously chic. My father was very chic. My mother was a heavy woman and she wore wonderful, bright colors, and pajamas, but when she was ….

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 think Diana Vreeland recognized the passion and the energy I had. I stayed at Harper's Bazaar for two years, until I met my first husband and moved….

If you've taken the job to be the stylist for a collection, then I think it's important for you to really listen to the designer and look at the boar….

Have you ever held a snake? Well, let me tell you, it is so erotic..

A lot of women say to me, "Polly, why aren't there more clothes out there that we can wear?" And I don't agree with them! There are clothes out there….