Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. – Isaac Mizrahi
Youre not working with models, youre working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy. – Isaac Mizrahi
This is what I like about being a designer: You cant really get it until you see it. – Isaac Mizrahi
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. – Isaac Mizrahi
Nevertheless, a maxim does not necessarily become a proverb. Many grubs never grow to butterflies; and a maxim is only a proverb in its caterpillar stage—a candidate for a wider sphere and longer flight than most are destined to attain. – “Proverbs Secular and Sacred,” The North British Review, February 1858