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

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.

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.

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

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.