Zac Posen

I think it's really important to try to eat seasonally as much as possible. It helps put people in touch with what's happening locally and with nature.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

I like films that probe emotional questions and inspire you to get creative and get writing, get draping, painting, cooking, whatever that thing is where you have that kind of output.

The most significant pieces for me are the ones that come from my drapings. It's emotional because they are created by my hand and then become a collaborative process in the atelier.

As a little boy, my mom would bake with me on the weekends - that was our time together.

I just think when you are dressing a celebrity, for me, I'm hopefully adding a moment. I always say, 'What role do you want to play?' when we start a fitting.

I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.

I'm interested in the opportunity that people can self-create using social media and the online dialogue. Before social media, you needed to have a lot of personal funds to break through to hire the right people and build a presence to start a line. It gives the opportunity and platform for people to be discovered.

I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.

I believe that creativity is an important human experience and element in the same way as sleeping, eating, having sex.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers.