The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.

When a silhouette or shape is as beautiful as it is functional and relevant, that's true luxury.

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

I feel lucky to love what I do. It doesn't feel like working. I do all the projects I do because I like doing them, whether it's a book or a photo shoot. For me, my work and my life are the same.

I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life - how I have five, six, seven projects going on at one time.

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?

One can never have too many books.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.

Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

Love conquers all things.

For the security of the UK, it matters a lot for Somalia to become a more stable place.