All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
Isaac Mizrahi

Either it works or it doesn't.
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

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
Isaac Mizrahi

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
Isaac Mizrahi

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
Isaac Mizrahi

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
Isaac Mizrahi

I don't want to offend people.
Isaac Mizrahi

I have a lot of obligations.
Isaac Mizrahi

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
Isaac Mizrahi


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.
Isaac Mizrahi

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
Isaac Mizrahi

I'm so involved in melancholy.
Isaac Mizrahi

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.
Isaac Mizrahi

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
Isaac Mizrahi

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.
Isaac Mizrahi

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.
Isaac Mizrahi

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
Isaac Mizrahi

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
Isaac Mizrahi

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Isaac Mizrahi