I Enjoy The Speed Of Fashion. I

One Of My Favorite Teams Of All Time Is Fran And Barry. I Just Thought Fran And Barry Last Season Were Just Incredible And They Just Sort Of Went Against All Odds And Were Very Successful.

If You Are A Designer, Sometimes It Is Better Not To Delegate, Because Someone Pays Money For Something That You Designed, So It Should Be Exactly The Way You Want It, Exactly The Way You Would Have Chosen It. People Call Me A Control Freak, And I Say, "well, My Name Is On The Shoe." It Means The Heel Needs To Be The Way I Want It And Not The Way Somebody Else Wants It, And The Toe Needs To Be Exactly The Way I Want It, And The Fabric And The Material Have To Be Exactly The Way I Want It. It Is Not A Democracy - It Is A Dictatorship.

We've Become A Little Spoiled With Menswear In Particular Because, Of Course, We've Come Off A Period In The '70s And '80s When Armani, Which Is Very Soft, Dominated Menswear. And We've Become Obsessed With Comfort. I Actually Don't Like That.

I Am Tired Of The Cult Of Youth. The Cultural Rejection Of Old Age, The Stigmatization Of Wrinkles, Grey Hair, Of Bodies Furrowed By The Years. I Am Fascinated By Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’keeffe And Louise Bourgeois, Women Who Have Let Time Embrace Them Without Ever Cheating. Society Today Condemns This, Me, I Celebrate It.

I Love Black Dresses. I Think Everyone Should Own A Lot, But Black Dresses Don't Sell Online Because On The Computer They Don't Read Like Anything.