"I’ve had my dreads for about twenty years; it’s part of being a Rasta."

"I have to go many places, I live many places."

"You can say I’m dressed like a French farmer."

"It’s a matter of layering both color and texture. When you’ve been a cat for a long time, you know texture."

French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld is full of respect for the powerful fashion editors on the other side of the Atlantic. “They are very, how you say, slick,” she says. But all that money and success are so . . . American.

Is luxury really impervious to a nervous market? Gucci’s mammoth new midtown store assumes the appetite for designer goods is undiminished.

"My money says the pantsuit will go everywhere within six months."

"I try to go for a theme most days. Like I’ll be a pilot or an animal."

"I think that dark things that scare people have a lot of beauty to them."

"My family are jewelers, so I grew up in that world."