Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.

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.

Love will cost you dearly.And it will break your heart.But in the end, it will save the world.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

The funny thing about being Catholic, and I was raised Catholic, is that you identify with the Church, just as part of your character. Nevermind what you believe, it's just who you are.

I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.