About Isaac Mizrahi: Isaac Mizrahi is an American fashion designer, TV presenter, and creative director of Xcel Brands. He is best known for his eponymous fashion lines.
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
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.
Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
I don't want to offend people.
I have a lot of obligations.
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.
Either it works or it doesn't.
How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
I'm so involved in melancholy.
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.
All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
What you do, you don't think of as a product.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
