I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.Collection: Time
North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.Collection: Relationship
My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.Collection: Humor
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?Collection: Design
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.
Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.
There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.
When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.
I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.
In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!
American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.
People always think that designers hate each other. And we're certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other's company.
People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'
I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.Collection: Fashion
The greenest thing you could do in fashion, is to buy something great that you’re going to use for yearsCollection: Fashion
The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die forCollection: Differences
Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!Collection: Fashion
Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylishCollection: Mean
You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.Collection: Strong
Travel is the ultimate inspiration.Collection: Travel
Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personalityCollection: Appreciate
American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.Collection: Fall
I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.Collection: Giving Up
If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.Collection: Thinking
The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same...otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'Collection: Team
I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?Collection: Thinking
I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where I am today, so I know I don't know what's going to happen in the next five years or the next 20 years. I have my predictions—I'm sure technology will continue to have an impact on fashion, particularly the way people shop. I think quality will be increasingly important—we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.Collection: Fashion
I think quality will be increasingly important-we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.Collection: Fashion
No human being should wear tight satin.Collection: Should
Every woman should own a shirtdressCollection: Should