My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.

We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.

A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I would say this to my students all the time, it's about 30% you as the teacher and 70% about them. They tend to think that their role is to be the baby bird in a nest and you're going to feed them? They're going to feed themselves, or they're going to starve.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.