“People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than pro...” — Calvin Klein Quote

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine.

Rule of law, access to justice, and financial transparency happen by design, not accident.

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.