I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

I always tell this story: When I started, the woman went to the store to buy a dress. She saw it in pink and red, and then she remembered that the husband, who is probably going to pay for the dress, loves it in pink. So she buys the pink. Today, the same woman goes to the store and remembers the husband likes pink, and she buys the red.

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.

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.