I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.