All I want to do is make people beautiful.

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 designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

I think fashion is about longevity and doing your work. It isn't about winning or losing. It's about process, keeping it going.

I like the dream, like fantasy dresses. Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o’clock at night, it doesn’t matter. I think it is also important for me to make it pragmatic and practical and wearable. I always say, 'If you can’t eat it, it’s not food, and if you can’t wear it, it’s not fashion, it is something else.'

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.