Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

For me, fashion begins in New York.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.