I don't want to see a dress with a woman. I just want to see a woman, with a beautiful dress.

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

If I wasn't a designer I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache and I will give you a dress and we both make you feel good.

Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.