No CHANGE in musical STYLE will survive UNLESS it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to DRESS up to.

I don't like to TREAT a PIECE of clothing like an object of ART because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a DESIGNER.

Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on BUSINESS, and that's just making another ARTIST, my clothing line - capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that - capitalizing off EVERY MOVE I make.

The ESSENCE of a PERSON is not the CLOTHING she wears or the things he does. PEOPLE who LOVE them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

I never considered the CLOTHING business in COLLEGE. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he SENT me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for FOUR months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.

'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for PRODUCTS directed at WOMEN, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads UNLESS you have RECIPES. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish FASHION coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does.

Until I got older, I never DREAMED of what a demanding RESPONSIBILITY it is to keep FOOD in the pantry, to keep clothing NEAT and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a HOME running.

I was always INTERESTED in making clothing that is WORN by PEOPLE in the REAL world.

I MAKE CLOTHING, and I don't CARE about TRENDY THINGS.

When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive WORSHIP for foreign goods and the fixed IDEA of what CLOTHES ought to be. I wanted to change the RIGID FORMULA of clothing that the Japanese followed.

My touchstone started out being - and is STILL - EXPLORING the ways by which to MAKE clothing from a single piece of cloth.

Polyester is easy to work with and results in CLOTHING that is WELL suited to the needs of a MODERN LIFESTYLE.

My thing has ALWAYS been that the CLOTHING we make is KIND of like music. There are always critics that don't understand that young people can be into Bob Dylan but also into the Wu-Tang CLAN and Coltrane and Social Distortion.

I WOULD LOVE to have my own fashion LINE. I love modest clothing that's still flirty.