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

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

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.

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

You don't go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater.

My customers are successful workingwomen.

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