If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin.

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 are a great soul. Live in the light.

When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

Nobody deserves to be treated like a princess 100% of the time... not even me.

Rock n roll is about drugs.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.