I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.

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.

You can be humble without compromising your values.

Our ability to choose is sacred. It’s what makes humans special.

For knowledge too is itself a power.

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that. . . every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.