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" Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window. "
Window
City
Girl
" Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!' "
Forget
Every Time
Time
" I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything. "
Funny
Jewelry
Real
" I collect books - a lot of books. "
Lot
Books
Collect
" I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.' "
Oh
Going
Up
" I find color optimistic and enthusiastic, and I adore it. "
Color
Adore
Find
" If I run, I'm much healthier - I run on a treadmill. "
Healthier
Much
Run
" If you're as honest and fair as you can be, not only in business but in life, things will work out. "
You
Work
Honest
" I hope that people remember me not just as a good businesswoman but as a great friend - and a heck of a lot of fun. "
People
Fun
Great
" I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children. "
House
Up
How
" I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.' "
Top
Smoking
Like
" I love Comme des Garcons. I think everything she touches is almost like gold. And she does it so quietly. No branding. "
Gold
Love
She
" I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. "
Lamps
Stand
Love
" I'm admittedly not that into the Internet. "
Internet
Admittedly
" I really wish I worried less. "
Really
Wish
Less
" I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in. "
Creativity
Creative
Thinking
" I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.' "
Quality
You
Important
" I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves. "
She
Vintage
Pink
" I work from home a lot. I think I get as much work done at the office as at home, and I'm used to working with people who don't work in the office. I don't really care where they are, even if they're on a banana leaf somewhere. If they deliver their work, I am completely fine. I don't need someone sitting at their desk to produce. "
I Am
Work
Home
" My mother was very good at encouraging me to dress however I wanted to dress. My sisters would sometimes think, 'Oh my God, you let her buy that fuzzy leopard coat at that vintage store?' I thought, of course, I looked like Audrey Hepburn. "
Dress
God
Good
" No one realizes how hard parenthood is. I am not saying going into the office is easy. It's not. But parenthood, as fun as it is, is not for the fainthearted. "
Office
Easy
Fun
" People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD. "
Love
See
People
" Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early! "
Starting
Early
Girl
" Students were pulled aside to spend more time in art class, and I wasn't one of them. "
Spend
Students
More
" The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule. "
Own
Business
You
" The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business. "
Like
Fun
Fashion
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