You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.

I'm doing all that I can to prod the industry and get them to pay more attention [to larger women and petite women]. Because I find it to be reprehensible and repugnant that two populations that are so pervasive in this nation should be so badly neglected.

People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

Don't give up! You're too talented. You're too good!

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.