Isaac Mizrahi

"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."

"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."

"Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is."

"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."