I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.
'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is a unique symbol - something strong. It's about going all the way.
I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem.
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.
It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.
You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.
As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.
I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments.
Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.
I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.
