All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.
Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it.
Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.
Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.
I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.
I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.
I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.
I do really modern with materials that are so luxurious that they're, like, baroque.
I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience.
I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make it more playful.
I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.
If something's a high-margin product, I understand its importance to the store.
Koishikawa Korakuen Garden - one of Tokyo's oldest Japanese gardens, and one of the best spots for viewing the cherry blossoms.
Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits.
My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.
Not enough people enjoy working with color, which delights and inspires me.
That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.
The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.
What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.
