I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.
I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'
I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.
For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.
Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'
There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England. She and the Pope are the ultimate clients.
