If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today... I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

Where there is creativity there is hope and Haiti is the most hopeful place I've experienced

[The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers], "Wear-now-buy-now."

When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

Sometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.