“First of all, if you lived in New York at that time, there was no way you could not meet Andy Warhol. He was everywhere; he was like parsley.” —DVF tells students at Oxford, via WWD.

“It has the obvious connotations…girl in boyfriend’s/husband’s/one-night stand’s shirt the morning after a black-tie ball. It’s very James Bond.” —Marcus Wainwright on the whole tomboy trend. We couldn’t love this sexy image more.

“Retirement is not one of the topics with which I deal. Why should I? I still have so many projects that I sometimes don’t know where to begin. Chanel will still need some clothes when I’m 89. The world can count on me for a long time.” —Karl Lagerfeld on those pesky rumors.

“People are getting really excited about social media without really asking themselves if there is any reason to really get excited.” —The founder of Paris-based consulting company, Luxe Corp in The New York Times on fashion’s internet clusterfuck.

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” —Kate Moss tells WWD.

“Our Dad said If we used our own last name for our brand, we might be mistaken for an Irish pub.”—Kate Mulleavy at the press conference for the 10th Anniversary of Swiss Textiles (via Business of Fashion’s Twitter)

“You have to offer something that feels produced, because that’s what you cannot have on Internet. You have to reinforce all the good things magazines are there for and eliminate everything else.” —Fabien Baron to The Daily Beast on what he’s doing at Interview this time around and magazines in general.

“You’d think it would be enough to be the Queen of Constance, but then to have to be the queen of the Upper East Side, and then … ” Jenny trails off here, but allow us to finish. And then you have to be the queen of your college sorority. Then you have to be the queen of the Style.com set, and have Derek Blas blog about you. Then you have to be the queen of the trophy wives, and then you have to have the prettiest and smartest children. Then you have to be the queen of New York Social Diary, and the queen of Bill Cunningham’s page in “Styles,” and then you have to hope that when at last you get Alzheimer’s your children don’t turn against you and start selling your possessions and letting you live in squalor on a pee-stained sofa. And then you die, and even then, you can still lose, if everyone stops talking about you.” —From Daily Intel’s epic Gossip Girl recap.

“Oprah just revealed the 3rd cover of the Dec issue and she is wearing custom made PG gown. Dreams do come true y’all. Thank you @Oprah” —Prabal Gurung’s Twitter. As if he wasn’t already on a roll the past couple weeks, now women across America will know his name. Congrats!!!

“Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana hit New York City last week to shoot their spring-summer advertising campaigns for women and men. According to…Twitter, the duo was in the middle of a Sicily-themed photo shoot with Steven Klein in a Brooklyn studio on Wednesday.” — From this morning’s WWD, because dressing Brooklyn up as Italy, which is where you are in the first place, makes so much sense.

“I am a complete alcoholic. It used to be so easy to say to someone, ‘Get me a bottle of vodka,’ and they’d run and get it. Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made. The last six months have been the best of my life.” —Lara Stone to Vogue UK (via Fashionologie) We’re happy she’s so happy.

“I’m a very brave woman. I’m not going to be scared and no one’s going to judge me.” —Sonya Battla, the first designer to show in this season’s Fashion Pakistan, an event that’s been delayed three weeks due to militant Taliban attacks. Rock on, Sonya.

“Just because I’ve become spiritual doesn’t mean I can’t love crocodile.” —Tom Ford gets serious in W.

“If a YSL Tribute boot dropped acid at Woodstock and got knocked up by a cowboy boot, then maybe their offspring would look something like this.” — Seventeen-year-old Jane Aldridge describes her new vintage boots on her blog, Sea of Shoes.

“I dress just like Serena! I own half her wardrobe.” — Blake Lively in Nylon, while we relish how un-Serena-like she looks on the cover.

“Ernest is not someone I’m constantly thinking about. In fact, I might like his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald a little bit more.” - Dree Hemingway in the new V, and yet it wasn’t Dree Crisman who landed that Givenchy runway.

“Barneys has a 400 person-long waiting list for the [new version of the] Rocco bag already. We had three samples when we first came up with it a couple of seasons ago, decided off-hand to send one to Mary-Kate, and it’s just crazy. We had retailers calling about it before it even hit the runway the first time around [for Fall 2009].” —Alexander Wang to Fashionologie on the crazy demand for his Rocco bag. We suggest trying his website on November 1st!

“Maybe. I never say never.” —Gwyneth Paltrow when asked if she would ever take up designing. We are fairly (well, totally) impartial when it comes to GP, so we say, totally go for it.

“I’m already organizing staff who will continue my work. Of course I am not eternal, there comes a time when you must hand it over.” —Giorgio Armani on his employment future to Reuters via The Cut.

“I don’t want to stand next to a 20-year-old on the runway, even if people say you can still do it. It is like, ‘Why would I do that to myself?’ It would just make me depressed.” —Cindy Crawford tells StyleList why she quit the catwalk.