“Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.”

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone!

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.

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.

They never ask the celebrities why they don’t wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

There shouldn’t be any violence in hip-hop. You’re getting free clothes. Basically, it’s free money.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I’ve always been a size 14 to 16, I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.