It’s always great to have things from France at a wedding. It’s symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

I’m not going to go to the local theater to spend $12… when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don’t get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or...

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn’t know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how...

Mrs. Obama has a hug – a sincere and friendly embrace – that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention...

Look at ‘American Idol,’ which I don’t look at. Those winners haven’t become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can’t aim to be a household name. You just have...

I only take risks in couture, but I don’t take risks in athleticism.

The zenith of elegance in any woman’s wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

In my day you didn’t speak until spoken to.

Uggs are comfort shoes, and it’s important to have a shoe that gives you a sense of comfort. I have about 15 pair of Uggs – the same shoe, the same color. And I also...

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

When my best friends doubt their little black dresses, they call me on the telephone seeking reassurance.

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

It’s incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don’t have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

When I have interns, I always say, ‘Handwritten thank-you notes can make a difference.’ People remember that – not an e-mail, a handwritten note in an envelope.

There is room in today’s world for men to wear dresses.

Reality TV, although I’m a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

You can never have too many black pumps. Never!

I’d like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people – that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a...

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That’s what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

Uggs can be as chic as heels for women.

When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost,...

Stella McCartney, not only is she a designer, she is a mother of four, and she lives for practicality. She understands what a woman needs to wear to work and what a woman needs to...

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother’s front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister’s farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen’s screen door and hams were...

I suppose the most daring thing I’ve ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage – all my luggage matches.

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

I love people – it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends,...

I’m usually at home and in bed by 10 o’clock. I do not want to be out at anybody’s New Year’s Eve party.

I don’t tear down. I prefer to build up.

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

‘Drekitude’ is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you’re standing wrong. ‘Drek’ is a total, total, total hot mess.

Money isn’t everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope.

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in ‘Vogue’ magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read ‘The New York Times.’ I had to make my own world within my world because...

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today’s world, that does not exist.

If you’re going to be a model, what’s going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you’re wearing,...

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously...

I think it’s important that models be healthy.

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

I love Russian culture. I don’t know the young Russia, I’m not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.

I do believe there’s a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches.

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you’re disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.