So Perhaps The Real Secret To Style

I Wouldn't Know What To Do On A Date. I Don't Have The Time. To Make A Relationship Work, I'd Have To Give Something Up, And I'm Not So Sure I'm Willing To Do That.

I've Worn A Suit And Tie For Most Of My Life. And I Believe (for Me), It Makes Me More Confident Navigating The World.

I Have A Very Socratic Approach - I Pummel The Designers With Questions, So When I Get Them To Step Back From The Work And Look At It With Me, They'll Eventually See What I See, Coming To It Fresh And Unencumbered. That's Always Very Gratifying Because They Feel A Responsibility And An Ownership Of A Solution.

And I'm The First One To Tell People To Break The Rules. But You Can Only Break The Rules Once You Know What The Rules Are. The Other Thing Is, Fashion Is The Last Design Discipline To Actually Have Academic Texts And Historical Analysis.

The Color, The Shape, And The Texture--none Of It Is Accidental. Every Item We Wear Has A Glorious (or Sometimes Not So Glorious) History, And That History Extends Back Years--centuries, Even--before Oscar De La Renta's 2002 Collection.