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.
The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
I get my jolt of energy in New York. I get mi familia vibe in New York.
I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.
Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.
When I'm in L.A., I kind of go crazy in the middle of the night when it's, like, completely quiet.
Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
That New York energy, when you've got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight - there's nothing like that.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.
new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.
I love Milan, and I'm not just saying that. It's a city that gives me a great sense of euphoria. I can't explain why, but I feel a special energy there.
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.
London is a very energising place to be.
That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.
I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.
New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.
New York feels vibrant... It feels electric to walk the streets at night.
It's pretty cliched, but Times Square is just incredible. You really feel like you're in the capital of the world.
Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.
I always see about six scuffles a night when I come to San Francisco. That's one of the town's charms.
