I just never want to completely grow up.
To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made.
When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
My mother worshipped at the alter of accessories and I got the bug. She always said, if you have a good, little, simple black dress and you have different accessories, you can have 27 different outfits.
I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.
I just mix and put things together the way the spirit moves me.
Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!
I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.
Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.
I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.
Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on.
Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.
I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.
In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.
The world is always full of promise.
I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!
These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.
My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
People would always say to me, "Why are you wearing such large frames?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you."
Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.
I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.
To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
I don't pay attention to things like the talent for style. I don't meditate on things like that. I just do whatever I think I should do and go with it, and if people like it, then I'm very happy about it. And if not, I always figure it's their problem not mine.
