Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character.

It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn’t we have a fashion designer as a senator?

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you’re about, and everything I do is really about pride.

In my adult life I’ve understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.

Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I’m really comfortable in one.

If I’m sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don’t know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, ‘What should I do?’ So it’s meditative.

Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you’re afraid that you’re going to covered in a magazine as a “fashion don’t.” That’s why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.

Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They’re meditative. I have three a day.