I go through phases where I buy only Speed Stick and Axe, and Noxzema shaving cream.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

Art critics are like every other critic.

I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.