Working for incredible talents like Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo, I learned about the immense skill and creativity involved in couture work.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.

And smile, you know I always tell the girls to smile because I hate sad faces.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

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

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