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"That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make - he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun."
"Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing."
"There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant."
"I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me."
"More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - sex was out in the open and fun."
"Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing."
"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
"You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur"
"Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale."
"Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress."
"I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon."
"Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well."
"Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite."
"The iPod is genius. I have 300."
"If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag."
"Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?"
"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
"Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief."
"For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners."
"Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all."
