You can never please everyone, and I think it's best not to.

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort.

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.