Quotes from Zac Posen

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

I am a Florenz Ziegfeld fanatic.

One of my fantasies is to produce 'Auntie Mame' as a play.

Chefs have the ego of an actor and fashion designer combined.

You can't market or commercialize feminism as an entity. One has to be careful. I aim to be about powerful women in my clothing.

I was very interested in theatre, so my first love of fashion comes from costume, and I think that's pretty clear within my work and the level of theatricality.

I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers.

There are issues that are being questioned that are fundamentally upsetting to me, deeply: immigration, funding for the arts, Planned Parenthood, and women's rights. These are just issues that are very close to my heart, and I use my own private voice and funds to fight for them and in support of them.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

I go online at night and I order flowers, rare flowers, and then they come in the mail. That's my fashion detox.

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

The first time I went to the Met Ball, I was 16. I was an intern there and saved up to buy a staff ticket to the party. That was my favorite experience going. It wasn't the red carpet; it was the experience of being there for the first time.

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

If you're entering into fashion in an original way, you have to know your craft, and you have to know your history. You have to be obsessively dedicated. You have to be relentless about making it happen. It doesn't take a bank. It takes passion, love, timing, and luck.

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

I just think when you are dressing a celebrity, for me, I'm hopefully adding a moment. I always say, 'What role do you want to play?' when we start a fitting.

Don't worry about what's cool and what's not cool. Authenticity is what's cool.

At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.

When you make and drape clothing, the scissors are your tool. What can I say about them? They're my babies. And you have to take care of them correctly. You have to have them sharpened, and you can't use them for any other material.

I am totally unattached to material items.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

I love creative people.