I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.