As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?

Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.

When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.