I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
I'm not Bill Gates. And I'm not Ted Turner.
I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
I never wanted to be the face of the brand. You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.
I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.