Designer Quotes

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I am not nostalgic for the past.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

Italy is a divided country without a center.

Fashion needs to be worn.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.