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When I Read About Young Designers Selling 51 Percent Of Their Company To Someone Else, I Cringe. I Want To Say, 'don't Do It - Call Me First.'

One Of The Most Important Things Is To Figure Out What Your Look Is — I Don't Wear This Black Suit-white Shirt Combination All The Time To Try And Be Iconic — But Because I'm Most Comfortable In This. Cary Grant Never Turned Up In A Pink Jacket And Hot Pants And I Don't Feel The Need To Experiment When I Know I Like Dressing This Way.

If It's Not Fun, I'm Not Going To Do It.

If You Are A Designer, Sometimes It Is Better Not To Delegate, Because Someone Pays Money For Something That You Designed, So It Should Be Exactly The Way You Want It, Exactly The Way You Would Have Chosen It. People Call Me A Control Freak, And I Say, "well, My Name Is On The Shoe." It Means The Heel Needs To Be The Way I Want It And Not The Way Somebody Else Wants It, And The Toe Needs To Be Exactly The Way I Want It, And The Fabric And The Material Have To Be Exactly The Way I Want It. It Is Not A Democracy - It Is A Dictatorship.

I Think People Who Are Compelled To Achieve Never Really Think They've Achieved... I Think The Moment You Get To A Place When You Think 'oh I'm A Fashion Legend' Then That's When You're No Longer Competitive In Your Field.