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But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.


Fashion was in a crisis up until the mid-'90s and, when it came out of the crisis, it was a very different place. It was a place that nurtured and cultivated young entrepreneurial designers.


If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.


And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.


I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.


I haven't had a date in 26 years.


I learned early on in teaching how easy it is to hurt a young person and that's never my intention.


I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.


I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.


In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.


But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.


I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.


I love helping people.


I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.


Men's wear is all about tailoring.


On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.


People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.


I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.


If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.


There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.