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.

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.

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.

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.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.