In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

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.

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

Nothing makes me happier than working with real people in the real world.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.