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.

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

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.

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

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality

When I'm not working I'm a slug - a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I'm either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.