“Design is an unknown.” — Geoffrey Beene Quote

Design is an unknown.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.

We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success.