My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

Mid-'80s in New York was fantastic. I remember my first Gay Pride parade in the city. Where I grew up was very sheltered, so when I got to the city, there was this freedom and so much happening. At the same time, there was this pressure of AIDS and everything else. New York is so different today.