You can build a brand very fast now, especially with bloggers and how fast images can get out - the message just goes out faster and stronger than ever before.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.

When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and dont want to look like grandmothers.

I try to think about items that can be worn in different ways so they can be worn more than once.

I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive.

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

One of my biggest pet peeves is well-dressed designers. If you spend that much time thinking about your own clothes, you're not spending enough time thinking about what you're designing.

He wanted to know all about me and my family and especially my childhood.That's where everything starts, he'd say. Both heaven and hell.

Love yourself enough to open your eyes, and open your eyes enough to love yourself.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

I'm blessed, because of my faith, that I don't have to worry about the future because I know who holds my future.