If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue.
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
A short way into Teen Vogue I realized that teens see it as a guide for their lives and their careers, more than a place to teach them how to get boys. And they don't ask us fashion advice questions; they're too sophisticated. They're inspired by what they see and they think, 'These people at this magazine represent what I want to be, beyond shoes and makeup.'
Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I have little kids who are hard to be away from sometimes when school's going back and there are tons of things that you're missing. But you know, there's that great Billie Jean King expression: "Pressure is a privilege." We can all deal.
This is a collaborative enterprise," she says. "You have to surround yourself with good people and help them to do what they do well, as opposed to micromanaging.
It's not so much about powerful women. In some cases, there are stereotypes about women. I often don't hear men talked about in the same way. It's more a sexist stereotype than a powerful stereotype.
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported.
I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'
I like glamour. Not afraid of it.
Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.
It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
Style doesn't have seasons.
They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.
I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!
It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.
I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.
Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?
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