I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.