You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

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Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

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People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

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Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

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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.

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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.

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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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