When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end of the year, I gave her the sketchbook. For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.

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.

The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.

The whole season thing is nonsense. It's either beautiful or it isn't. That's something I really learned when I started collecting dresses.