Azzedine Alaia

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

If I don't have a model in front of me, I don't have an idea.

I love film - it's like painting.

I love American girls. They're audacious. They put more outrageous things on their bodies than anybody.

I think women should be seductive, not triste. There's enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

I take it to heart that, for example, there aren't enough funds for AIDS research, but people pay 20 times the value of an item of clothing.

Anna Wintour doesn't deal with pictures; she is just doing PR and business, and she scares everybody.