My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.

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.

The secret to lifelong friendship is to treat is not just as a gift, but also as a responsibility. Thanks for playing your part to perfection....

The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

I am very big into superheroes.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.