You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.

I know who the Versace woman is, because I wear the clothes myself.

You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.

Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.