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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

I was never so directly inspired by fashion. It always came from somewhere else.

Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.