You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
I don't want to offend people.
Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
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.
Either it works or it doesn't.
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
I have a lot of obligations.
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.
How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
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.
What you do, you don't think of as a product.
You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
I'm so involved in melancholy.
