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'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.