The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.

Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.