Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.
There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.
Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.
Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastiertenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!
We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.
I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.