We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women who inspired me, and ask them to walk how they walked. I was doing a mise en scène, which for me was normal. I love for people to see my clothes, but it was more about the attitude of the girls. The revues of the late 19th centuryearly 20th century were very much a reflection of what was happening in society and politics, and for me that is also the role of the fashion designer.
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often a kind of symmetry: the more intense the stress and the more hopeless the situation, the more fabulous the coming times that are anticipated.
When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.