All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
Either it works or it doesn't.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
How many assistants do I have? One who works with me on collection, one who works on Isaac, a person who works with her, and I have a design director. And Laura works with me on shoes.
I actually prefer a red eye because I don't like to lose all that time.
I do have this determination to not run scared. I can't just say, How can I sell millions of things?
I don't know anything about politics. I never know who I would vote for. I'm a dope.
I don't know why I have a much more kinetic response to theater and dance.
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
I don't want to offend people.
I have a lot of obligations.
I loved Brokeback Mountain. I loved the photography. And I thought Heath Ledger was remarkable in that movie, too.
I started making men's suits for women that looked like the fabric was water damaged, or that had been slept in. And the collection ended up looking like heirlooms. It looked like it was from grandfather's closet.
I used to have this following in the community where I grew up, in Brooklyn. I was this little freak. People used to stop me on the street.
I want to make men's clothes again. I want to make accessories. It's very frustrating when you don't make accessories.
I would prefer it if I could wear a tuxedo, because that would be so much more classic, but I don't necessarily look that great in bowtie.
I wouldn't do a sitcom immediately, but it would be a dream.
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.
I'm not going to put a mask on to meet people now because of whatever interesting controversy was raised at the Golden Globes.
I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
I'm so involved in melancholy.
I'm so involved in this collection.
If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
It would torture me. I'd keep thinking, Can't I be the one to just do this first?
It's like I'm leading an orchestra. Sometimes it's very specific, but a lot of times it's blah, blah, blah.
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.
Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
Most people looking at the ads, they get an emotion. Get an actress in the clothes who can give you an emotion that comes through the photograph.
My controlling nature... it's like I demand that you come back.
My favorite thing was Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line. One of my favorite moments of the last six months was looking at that movie.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.
That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
The business needs to go somewhere. But everyone's business does. And when I think about that, I don't really have the answer.
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.
The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
Until I started making my own shoes, it was horrible.
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm 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!
What you do, you don't think of as a product.
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
Whenever anyone on the street says, Oh, you're so great, I love your work, it always feels like they're with a gang of kids, calling me a freak. It's this weird dynamic that has always existed in my life.
You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
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 would love Mischa Barton to wear his clothing and says she's the prettiest girl in America.
Isaac began making clothes for his mother and her friends at the age of 13.
Isaac was Emmy-nominated for the costumes he designed for the Liza Minelli program "Stepping Out."
Isaac is a three time CDFA "Designer of the Year" award winner.
His contribution to the literary world was a series of comic books called Sandy, the Adventures of a Supermodel, which was published by Simon and Schuster.
Isaac apprenticed under Jeffrey Banks, Calvin Klein and Perry Ellis when starting out as a designer in New York City.
Isaac's birthday is on October 14, 1961.
Isaac starred in the 1995 documentary "Unzipped", which entailed him planning his fall 1994 collection.
Isaac studied fashion at Parsons School of Design.
Isaac did red carpet interviews for the Oscars and Golden Globes with the E! Channel.
His hometown is Brooklyn, N.Y.
Isaac says that the ugliest trend he is unable to resist are platform shoes.
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