I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That’s why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
Hard times always lead to something great.
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself.
My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.
If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.
With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it’s much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
Girls don’t dress for boys...
I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
I’m not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
If it hadn’t been for the rise of the working woman’s wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
I was a cheerleader for nine years!
When you’re designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that’s the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.
If I could give one piece of advice to my younger self, it would be: ‘Put your blinders on and go full speed ahead!