I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

Being sexy is not about what's on show, it's all about suggestion, or insinuation. I'm interested in the way a garment hangs on a woman's body and the way it moves when she moves.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

Why can I not fight for my country too?

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.

Find the right people, not the best people.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?