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When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it. It humbles me that companies want me. It's a challenge to uphold their values and make their product look good. I take that personally.

There are just so many young designers now.