Quotes from Isaac Mizrahi

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.

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.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.

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 have a lot of obligations.

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.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

I don't want to offend people.

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.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

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

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

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

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

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.

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