Kenneth Jay Lane

“If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.”

“I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.”

“A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.”

“Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.”

“My mother, when I told her I was going into the jewelry business said, 'Kenneth, don't tell anyone.'”

“I am myself a fabulous fake.”