Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

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

Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it." Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.

As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.

I didn't have a vision as in, This is where I'm going. I had a vision as in, "This is what I love to do."