At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.
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.
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect. . . With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.