There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making

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.