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

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

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.

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

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

You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.