“It seems there’s always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.”

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

I’m more offended when someone’s killed on television than when there’s something that’s sensuous or sexual. So what?

Commercials capture your attention, that’s all.

I couldn’t have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it’s not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Levi’s can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I’m not a politician and don’t want any part of politics.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I’m upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it.

Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.

Her monotone life became a kaleidoscope prismatic in love.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

The pain grows within you only to end within you.

Life is all about swinging between everything good and everything bad.

My love is like a trigonometry problem simplified by my heart’s mint green genies, the broken being in me sings a million epiphanies, my life is but colors spilled in polaroids of caring butterflies.

I would be nothing if not for the woman in my life for their quiet yet deafening resilient influence.

Just like roses come with thorns, beauty comes with flaws. You could be the only rose in someone’s life full of thorns.

Each sunrise is a new chance to make your life the one you always dream of.