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

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.

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!

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.

Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

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