No one ever recognizes me.
I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch. I mean, that's why I went into this business to begin with.
When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.
My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.
The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.
The way my mom dressed was one of my earliest inspirations, in those '80s suits with shoulder pads and things like that. For years, I ran away from that style. But now, all I want to do is shoulder pads and nipped-in waists and padded hips and peplums and poufed dresses.
We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.
In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.