My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.
Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.
Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'
I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.
My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
Some people would like me to be round again.
Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
