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.

Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.

I was sometimes embarrassed about making it - people look at you in a different way. You become this rich guy with the house. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's, but I've sometimes felt set apart from the people I work with. They think, "You're rich - you don't have problems."

I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.

Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.