Even when it sucks, it's worth it.
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity. 
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like. 
The Moon is such a planet I can't even stand it. 
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy. 
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers. 
The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be. 
How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing. 
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. 
Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die. 
I'm so involved in melancholy. 
All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels. 
Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it. 
I don't want to offend people. 
A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you. 
The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do. 
You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine. 
There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken. 
Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol. 
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it. 
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own. 
I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful. 
Flirting is conversational chemistry. 
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work. 
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. 
You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry. 
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes. 
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it. 
I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous." 
If you feel something in your heart, if you have a vision for it, then it's no longer a risk. 
Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening. 
Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on. 
When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything. 
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy. 
A gift to mankind; the next Elizabeth Taylor in the making 
What you do, you don't think of as a product. 
Either it works or it doesn't.