I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.