At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom – but I have them tailored.
I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don’t do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
I’m very direct. I don’t have tantrums. I don’t yell or shout. I do expect an awful lot from my staff, but no more than I expect of myself.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.
I’m extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.
A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I’m just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.
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.
I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
I don’t work for money any longer. I’m fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one’s own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.
Just because one is spiritual doesn’t mean that one doesn’t like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn’t mean to completely disregard them.
As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.
You always notice a facelift on a woman. It’s a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it’s been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that’s what’s so strange.
We live in a material world. I’m not saying that beautiful things don’t enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we’re never happy.
A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it’s cut right up to your arm.
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials – that’s actually how I put myself through NYU and through college.
British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.
When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, ‘Don’t do it – call me first.’