You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.- Isaac Mizrahi
You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
You do not necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you are going to get, what you are going to say, what you are going to think.
When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I do not like.
What you do, you do not think of as a product.
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I am working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they do not really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people do not respond to it.
Sometimes I am really dressed up, and it really turns me on.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
