It’s a touch of fantasy that you want. It adds just a touch of color, and you feel very feminine.

You see a lot of uneven hemlines, a lot of biased cut, and a lot of pleating with uneven bottoms on the pleats,

The jackets that I did were very unconstructed,

We have a lot of great vintage stores. I like shopping, in general, so I can simply go to a drugstore and shop.

The only pants that I am using this season are jeans from my jeans collection. And, I’ve done them in denim again and also in corduroy.

The shapes are very elongated and lean. My sweaters kind of go beyond the hip. They’re very, very skinny. A lot of the jackets are cardigan shapes and again, they’re long and skinny.

I really wanted to bring magic and fun back to cosmetics. I mean that’s always been my attraction with cosmetics: color, texture, sparkle, glitter and all the things that make you kind of different or...

I love this collection because it’s really, really me. I didn’t want to see nudity, I wanted to see clothing, so we’ve been layering things.

I think that the fact that it’s black and that it has like this color in it and there’s painting around it. It just doesn’t seem real, and then the fact that it’s functional too.

Every season I buy a double-breasted jacket but it could be fitted, very boxy. It could be oversized. It could be forties-shaped. So I think it’s my job to make it desirable and new for...

I go to flea markets every weekend if I can.

[NEW YORK (CNN) –] If you’re going to live with it, you have to love it, … Everything that comes into my apartment, I have to use.

I would like to home wear sheets towels people always want to buy the furniture in my store.

[Her latest addition to the living room — paper mache furniture, with mother-of-pearl inlay — follows those guidelines. What attracted her to it?] I think that the fact that it’s black and that it has...

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you’re covered.

[The red library is Sui’s tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper’s Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961).] My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, … and they’re kind...

The colors kind of take on a very earthy tone, but with a richness of a forest or a garden. Dark greens, redish browns, kind of golden yellows, and some oranges for accent.

[The master bedroom gets drama from its large-scale Victorian furniture and sophisticated mauve color scheme.] We tried about 20 mauves until we found the right shade, … It could get kind of Pepto-Bismoly or too...