If I can get someone to put on a dress, walk in a room, have them feel great, and have everybody think that they look lovely, too - that's my job, as far as evening wear goes.

Nobody is going to buy one of our dresses because it will do, or as something to hide away in their wardrobe and wear at some dimly undetermined point. They always have an event of some kind in mind. They want to walk in the room and for everybody to think how amazing they look. That's the job, really.

All I ever aim to do is make beautiful evening wear.

I like the challenge of dressing ladies in lots of different things.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

I am not going to take a role because there's money. It might extend my checkbook, but not my integrity.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.