People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company. No one else knows what you're going through other than another designer.

You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.

The greenest thing you could do in fashion, is to buy something great that you’re going to use for years

In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.