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.

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

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.

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 much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style.

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

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