My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

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

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

I believe women do the best womenswear.

I really believe things happen for a reason, and sometimes that reason isn't revealed until much much, much, much later.

Exude unconditional confidence.