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

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.

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 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.

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.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Amongst all the colours in this multicoloured world, even jet black has its reserved place.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.