I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

Our look and image never change dramatically from one season to the next, so we need an edge.

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it - all that history, all those interesting stories.

The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.