I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.