Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. 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 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.

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

In fashion, we have a reputation for being such a façade, fake people, but none of the fashion people who I know are fake.

I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.