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
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
This is what I like about being a designer: You can’t really get it until you see it. – Isaac Mizrahi
You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it’s the same thing. – Isaac Mizrahi
People say it’s really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That’s what sells magazines and clothes. – Isaac Mizrahi
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn’t really work. – Isaac Mizrahi
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. – 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
The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don’t really know exactly what’s going to happen from moment to moment. That’s why you watch the entire thing. – 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
When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don’t like. – Isaac Mizrahi
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. – 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
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
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is. – Isaac Mizrahi
