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“And Brooke Elliott is a great actress.”
“I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.”
“Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.”
“But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?”
“On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.”
“I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.”
“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.”
“I'm honest about expressing my opinions. At the same time, I'm diplomatic in how I do critique things if I have a negative response.”
“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.”
“I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.”
“I haven't had a date in 26 years.”
“I'm one of the biggest introverts you could ever meet.”
“I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.”
“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.”
“I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.”
“I just don't like conspicuous consumption. I find it distasteful.”
“Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it's your shoulders or your long legs!”
“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”
“I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.”