I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.

You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?