Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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.
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.
Procrastination is one of the most expensive invisible costs in business today.
There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions. ' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.
I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.