I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Gender roles suck, " says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

Money cannot buy happiness.

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

Everything begins as an internal reality and then is externalized through perception.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?"

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.

The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow