I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

~Reading a book is like looking through a window!

Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

The storm will pass and the sun will rise again.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.