"I'll never forget when Anna Wintour called me to play at this event, she called me and said, 'I would like you to play at the Met gala, but I just want to make sure, because I've seen you perform before, that you won't be swearing during the performance'. So Anna, I will do my fucking best!"

-Lady GaGa to the 700 guests at the Met gala on how she got the gig.

Lady Gaga in a Prada tux with Miuccia Prada at the Met Gala on May 3, 2010

*image via Prada

If you could wish for one change in the world what would it be?
“That everybody could afford my shoes.”

-Christian Louboutin in AnOther's Proust Questionnaire

“People always ask if I think about a concept or the show or the front row or whatever first. No! Fuck off! The client comes first! The collection is driven by what clients want in different parts of the world, so I want them to be able to see it straight away and to judge it for themselves. Well I just think that which celebrities are wearing it, what reviews say—none of it matters if it’s all there for people to make their own minds up. I’m 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I’m dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above the earth.” -Alexander McQueen in LOVE