“I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don’t really need to have New Year’s resolutions.”

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.

I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she’ll be perfect.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

Lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

Start believing you’re well able, start praying bold prayers, start declaring victory over your life.

One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.