Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.

A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.