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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It made our presence in the world meaningful

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

Worry is the senseless process of cluttering up tomorrows opportunities with leftover problems from today

People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

I'd rather die than be with anyone but you.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.