The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same...otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'

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

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

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

I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.