This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

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.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

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.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

I have a lot of obligations.