Andy Yakulis Quotes

I love this collection because it`s really, really me. I didn`t want to see nudity, I wanted to see clothing, so we`ve been layering things.

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you`re covered.

(The red library is Sui`s tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper`s Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961).) My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, ... and they`re kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I`m trying to inspire myself for a collection.

The shapes are very elongated and lean. My sweaters kind of go beyond the hip. They`re very, very skinny. A lot of the jackets are cardigan shapes and again, they`re long and skinny.

The colors kind of take on a very earthy tone, but with a richness of a forest or a garden. Dark greens, redish browns, kind of golden yellows, and some oranges for accent.

(NEW YORK (CNN) --) If you`re going to live with it, you have to love it, ... Everything that comes into my apartment, I have to use.

(The master bedroom gets drama from its large-scale Victorian furniture and sophisticated mauve color scheme.) We tried about 20 mauves until we found the right shade, ... It could get kind of Pepto-Bismoly or too purpley.

It`s a touch of fantasy that you want. It adds just a touch of color, and you feel very feminine.

Every season I buy a double-breasted jacket but it could be fitted, very boxy. It could be oversized. It could be forties-shaped. So I think it`s my job to make it desirable and new for the customer and the customer always has to fill in that slot in their wardrobe.

(Her latest addition to the living room -- paper mache furniture, with mother-of-pearl inlay -- follows those guidelines. What attracted her to it?) I think that the fact that it`s black and that it has like this color in it and there`s painting around it, ... It just doesn`t seem real, and then the fact that it`s functional too.