I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.

I approach fashion as an evolution. It's always changing. As you know, sometimes it changes in three months.

My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.

You can't wait for people to tell you; you have to know yourself.

Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.