They said whaaat?! Best quotes du jour.

“My entrepreneurial drive is as strong today as it always has been, and my passion for innovation will continue to be my greatest guide in business. The incredible experiences and memories of the past decade and a half…will always be an inspiration to me.” Net-a-Porter founder and chairman Natalie Massenet has resigned from the online fashion retailer, ahead of its planned merger with Italian rival Yoox. Read more here at BOF

“I just want to design shoes.’ If I had had a goal from the beginning, I would have freaked out every day. When you have targets, you spend the day meeting targets, instead of correcting the heel and doing better shoes”. Christian Louboutin to afr.com

“I look at Giorgio’s clothes, at his sense of balance and proportion, line and shape, color and texture, and I’m always astonished all over again. It doesn’t matter who’s wearing them—he makes us all look good. Part of it is because we feel good wearing his clothes” Martin Scorsese’s Love Letter to His Old Friend Giorgio Armani to Vanityfair.com

“I don’t feel like I’m running a business. It’s more like running a fairy tale. Every shoe Uncle Lolo makes—he’s still the company’s only designer—is a character in a narrative, to whom he’s given the breath of life. His shoes are the outward expressions of all the layers and layers of intimidating, inspiring, spirited, encyclopedic information packed inside his head.” Manolo Blahnik’s niece Kristina on his shoe designs in vanityfair.com

“There are a few things I don’t like about my body, like that part of my thigh beneath my butt. But my friends will say I’m crazy and I know it’s just my perception. You can’t beat up on yourself.” model Emily Ratajkowski instyle.co.uk

“He’d rather me have my t— out and be a good person than have a shirt on and be a bitch”  Miley Cyrus, on dad Billy Ray’s opinion of her frequent nudity. ( didn’t know you had to decide).

“Now they are between 45 and 50 years old, and each one of them looks today as beautiful and interesting – I would say more beautiful and more interesting – than 25 years ago.” photographer Peter Lindbergh on the supermodel reunion shoot  which appears in Vogue Italia’s September issue see video and stills here at nowness.com