I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.

Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.