I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

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.

The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die. We always think we are going to live forever. The dying aspect we will never accept. The one thing about having this kind of warning is how you appreciate every single day of life.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

You know I started an orphanage so totally by accident. A lady came to me and asked me if I would, I will help her and we start it with little school and then I fell in love with it.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.