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"Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes."
"This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it."
"Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame."
"I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them."
"A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality."
"Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!"
"No one knows how hard one works."
"There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!"
"If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off."
"I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning."
"I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!"
"I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked."
"The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself."
"I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted."
"No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore."
"Parents, you know, can be terrible."
"All my life I've pursued the perfect red."
"I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities."
"Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always."
"Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake."