I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable and expressive.

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

There are different ways to shop for different people.

Fast fashion communicates to a different audience, to a younger audience.

I'm always thinking ahead, and I'm always curious about what's happening next. I thrive on that kind of thinking, so I don't burn out.

If you can't stop thinking about your job, in a positive way that energizes you, then you're probably where you're meant to be.

Those who lift trophies of success are those who do what they do without stretching their necks to see “who else is doing what?

We who lose our footing have lost our way.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

I just tried to remember how far you can love and how many states you can experience when you're in love, especially the first love when you think you're going to die.

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

On a dog sled team, unless you're the lead dog the view never changes.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!