I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.

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.

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.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Belief is not weakness. Faith is the greatest strength we can have.

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

A woman conceales what shee knowes not.

There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.