Fashion Capital Quotes

I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.

I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

London street style is the best in the world. Fact.

I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

New York City has the most beautiful women.

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

Brewer Street Car Park as the host venue is a brilliant development for London Fashion Week. With its position in Soho, it is at the heart of an area that has long been associated with fashion and creativity in general.

Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.