A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on

To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

What you do, you don't think of as a product