Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the step action to conquer it.

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart.

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.