I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Always aspire to become the next you, not someone else

I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.