I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
Very skinny women don't look beautiful in clothes.
High heels empower women in a way.
I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
I think women are excellent social critics.
I like women with style to wear my shoes.
I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.
No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
So this was what it was like not to be me.
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
