OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

We spotted Beyoncé, January Jones, Rihanna and Carey Mulligan wearing the label [Karen Walker]. I was ecstatic, but I'm just as thrilled to see interesting girls wearing our product everywhere. It's quite a buzz.

I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything.

I loved the idea that people dressed up to go to the gardens. Our work always has a utility point of view at its heartbeat and then other things come around it, so it really allowed us to use denims and suedes and gauzes, and those sorts of hard-working fabrics - workwear fabrics - and then contrast them with crepe de chine, beautiful florals and big jewelry.

You know, an iPhone is fashion everything is fashion.

You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.