I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a suc….

I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies -….

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about..

Fashion should be fun and accessible..

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered..

Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!.

Nothing's faster than the Internet..

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway..

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration..

I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion..

You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it….

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. ….

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets..

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands..

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' ….

Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!.

A piece of fabric can get me going..

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print….

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer..

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!.

Totally girly - love all the childish sounds..