I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

When we see something different, we judge them either bad or good. But when see something similar we take it as a norm. So does it justify that morality is the epitome good or bad, or vice versa.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

3-D movies can make me nauseous.