The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

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.