"I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality"

"I am an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. A graffiti artist beautifies walls; I beautify parkways and yards. I treat …"

"Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city, you get strawberries."

"I say all the time is, "I'm not in the fashion business."

"I'm in the beauty business."

"In fashion, you have to have perseverance."

"You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it."

"Maybe fashion was sleeping in me and suddenly it woke up."

"I was growing up, my great interest was my horses, tennis and that’s it, and dogs and normal life, not about fashion."

"The first thing I ever designed was a black dress, for myself, when I was 14 or 15."