— Jiline Sander
"I always want to be different, as a way to progress. At the beginning, I wanted to make a soft bag out of stiff leather. I wanted to make rich materials look poor, and poor materials look rich. Always there was something disturbing. In the end, that’s probably why people like Prada."
— Miuccia Prada
"He pushed you to do anything and everything. That’s one of the things I learned early from him — nothing was ever impossible. He challenged you one step further than you would ever challenge yourself. That was his ethos."
— Sarah Burton on Alexander McQueen