I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

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.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.