I want to bring softness and refinement to an urban, feminine wardrobe and to help the woman show her character and individuality through her unique clothes.

Macrame is effortless.

I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a womans spirits.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

But what are they?” Annie asked.“An omphalos, probably, ” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“A bellybutton of the world.”“I didn’t know it had one.

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

[Obamacare] has to be enforced because nobody wants it. This is the nature of progressive government they don't care if it's not good for you. It's good for them.

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the process of figuring it all out. It’s what doctors most love to do.