Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

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?

I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.

I realized that the way I approached architecture was with a somewhat fashion brain. That didn't get me very good marks in school, because everyone thought fashion was lightweight. In architecture they say, "Well, why is the door pink? Where does it go? What does the pink mean? What does it symbolize? All the other doors are beige, why is that one pink?" I was like, "Well, it's pink because it's pretty."

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

We've become a little spoiled with menswear in particular because, of course, we've come off a period in the '70s and '80s when Armani, which is very soft, dominated menswear. And we've become obsessed with comfort. I actually don't like that.