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

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.

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.

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.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.

Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother...' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally.

I don't have a set style, but I try not to dress like everyone else.

Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.