There’s nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It’s a nest where I go to heal.
Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs!
Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.
As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.
Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with – don’t go to that level.
Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.
If I had to choose a single destination where I’d be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.
The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it’s getting better.
We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.
I believe in the semiotics of clothes. They send a message about how the world perceives us. For me it goes beyond clothes, it’s grooming. It’s accessories. It’s the whole head to toe look.
When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they’re not pajamas.
Mood has a scuba section? Who knew?
Remember someone is going to be out, so don’t make it you.
I wouldn’t know what to do on a date. I don’t have the time. To make a relationship work, I’d have to give something up, and I’m not so sure I’m willing to do that.
On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.
I’ve never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don’t like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.
If you want to, you can share my teaching refrain: I can’t want you to succeed more than you do.
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you’re out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don’t send it. It’s based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.