Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?

When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique.

The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes.

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.