"Sometimes I wish he'd come back. There will always be a place for him in fashion. But I know it'll probably never happen. I just hope he's happy, that's all." - Stella McCartney
"Someone should've seen it coming. The long hours, the partying, then that disastrous mistake with the fruit necklace and the bees. I guess we all just thought he was fearless and indestructible. We were wrong." - Annie Leibovitz
"Oh my goodness, it was all anyone was talking about that season! The monkey, the monkey, the monkey. Everywhere he went, he was like Bianca on the white horse at Studio 54, only bigger, sweetie, much much bigger!" - Isaac Mizrahi
"When I gazed into his eyes, it was as though my heart had been pierced by a diamond! Never had I experienced such love, such longing, such irresistible animal passion!" - Donatella Versace
"He is not today or yesterday or even tomorrow he is beyond time yes I tell you beyond time this is why I must use him because he is transcendent and so when I look at him I think this is what I see now this is what I will see and this is what I have always seen which is a monkey and I am not ashamed of this because this is truth and fashion is truth and Morton is fashion and there I've said it!"- Karl Lagerfeld