"Whether it's a Ferrari or a siren evening dress, I have always appreciated beauty that has a purposefulness."
— Ralph Lauren at an exhibition of his rare cars at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Feb. 25
"It got to the point where we were delivering millions of dollars worth of merchandise, and they'd [Saks] send us a bill of what we owed them."
— Christopher T. Owen, attorney for Onward Kashiyama, on the Saks Inc. markdown investigation, March 7
"I am a fashion disaster. You should never look like you iron your hair."
— Bono, March 18
"People will overlook policies about war and peace to argue about the first lady's hairdo and clothes."
— Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton,March 22
"You don't have to look like a wh*re all the time."
— Actress Kristin Chenoweth, April 4
"I'm never going to run from who I am or what the color of my skin is, but I think when you have work that speaks for itself, it outshines the labels people try to put on you."
— Sean Combs, launching his women's line, June 2
"[Personal appearances are] not a good thing. You lose the kind of mystery if you show up too much. Personal appearances in the stores are very much the Seventies and Eighties. I don't see myself as a young, struggling designer. You have to be careful of overexposure. It can play against you."
— Karl Lagerfeld, June 6
"I only hope they get rid of that neon thing in front of the parliament, which is an embarrassment to Paris. It's beyond horrible. I like Las Vegas — but not in Paris."
— Karl Lagerfeld, referring to the gigantic Paris 2012 plastered on the National Assembly building, after London edged out Paris for the Olympics, July 7
He couldn't have just said "purpose"??
overexposure 
