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

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 think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'

My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

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

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.