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I came here because I wanted to live the American dream that I had heard of. And I'm a perfect example. I came to New York; I knew no one. I've made a career, a life, so I still believe in that.

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Career, Perfect, Here, Perfect Example

When I came to America, there were two kinds of women: women who looked serious and who didn't wear color and print, and women who looked girly and feminine and like second wives.

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Color, Feminine, Looked, Girly

Nothing scares a straight man more than a woman in her full glory.

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Woman, Straight, Scares, Straight Man

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

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City, New, Levity, Frivolous

People on the outside and even some people in the fashion industry think that fashion people are maybe not the smartest. It's a constant battle.

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Think, Some, Constant, Fashion Industry

My goal is: I'm not trying to be snobby, but my clothes are not for everyone, not for every Hollywood celebrity. There is a designer for everyone, and a celebrity for every designer.

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Goal, Celebrity, Hollywood, Snobby

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

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Will, Like, By The Time, Niece

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

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Myself, Facebook, Very, Wondering

Fashion has a huge responsibility - in what we show on the runway, what we do in editorial, who we dress - to make sure it represents differences. If we don't, we're giving in to the discrimination.

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Dress, Sure, Editorial, Huge Responsibility

The sources of inspiration from my travels have been unending.

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Been, Travels, Sources, Unending

I think I'm just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I'm having a little love affair with her!

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Love, Woman, I Think, Affair

I was definitely considered different growing up. I learned that being me was all right because my family celebrated those differences.

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Being, Learned, Considered, Celebrated

The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me.

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Best, Questioning, Always, Celebrated

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

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Hope, Trend, Degradation, Fanfare

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

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Want, Always, Over, Designs

I grew up with a single mother who brought us up. I always look back at my career, and everything that has happened to me is because of the support of women. My mother, my sister, Michelle Obama, Kate Middleton - all these women have believed in my designs and worn them and given me a platform to increase my visibility.

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Career, Brought, Michelle, Designs

I've always been interested in a femininity with a bite. I always think a little bit of a kick is great.

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Think, Always, Been, Femininity

I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

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Wear, Blank, About, Catholic

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

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Role, Guy, Needed, Budget

There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.

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Rise Above, Doing, Bad, Undoubtedly

I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

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Racing, Going, Strategic, Collaborations

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

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Design, Furniture, Want, Interiors

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

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Love, Very, Specialized, Respond

For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.

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Big, Give, Factory, Give Me

I went home and went to Mustang, in the mountains between Nepal and China, and was so inspired by the landscape and the rich culture and heritage. I loved the textures, the draping, the palette. Everything was so beautiful. This little kingdom wasn't open to the world until 1991.

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Mountains, World, Textures, Palette

Fashion has always had the ability to affect lives, to touch people. But for the longest period of time, we've said, 'Oh, we're just pages of a magazine; that's what we all look at.' It's more than that.

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Affect, Longest, Had, Magazine

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.

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Turn, Talking, Like, Magazine

I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.

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Living, I Remember, Idea, Hers

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

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Being Judged, Very, Having, Dinner

To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.

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Beauty, World, Inclusion, Size

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