"We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through."

"Accent your positive and delete your negative."

"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"

"It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion."

"Everything in life... has to have balance."

"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."

"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."

"I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people."

"Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."

"I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world."

"Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way."