“I’m living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.”

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.

Dressing effectively is a kind of excellent manners.

I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. “Look at that!” “You never do that for me!”

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

What’s so wrong with vanity? It’s different from narcissism, you know? It’s not about admiring yourself-it’s about taking pride in your appearance.

There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition.

Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It’s just really flattering—it will take pounds off you.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. English men make an effort. We’ve lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Dreams grow everywhere, people not.

I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

It is easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

Too many of us are taking our dreams to our graves. Songs that were never sung. Poems never written. Businesses never started. Relationships never formed. Books never written. Dreams never lived.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

We got dreams and we got the right to chase ’em.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.