When I was little, I had a Norwegian babysitter - and that was my introduction to both regular and salty licorice. We all know the ordinary version, but the salty kind is a favorite candy throughout Northern Europe. It's a guilty pleasure of mine that I have to try not to keep around because I'll eat the entire bag in one go.

Zac Posen

I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.

Zac Posen

I want to make things of quality. I'm a big believer in handmade, tactile, crafted pieces. I want to keep that tradition alive.

Zac Posen

There's a reason good fabrics have a cost. They're done with good quality to last.

Zac Posen

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

Zac Posen

At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.

Zac Posen

Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

Zac Posen

Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

Zac Posen

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

Zac Posen

Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

Zac Posen

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

Zac Posen

As an object itself, to me, books today are such a rare entity - I want mine to be something where, if left on the kitchen table, a child could pick it up. It can visually tell a story.

Zac Posen

When I'm on the road for fashion shows, I love room service. I think it's one of the greatest things in the world. I usually like to keep it simple with soup, but my big indulgence is French fries or chicken fingers.

Zac Posen

A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you're ready to fry.

Zac Posen

I don't wear flip-flops, so my casual shoe is a Brooks Brothers tuxedo slipper!

Zac Posen

Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful - the process of presentation is very important.

Zac Posen

As a little boy, my mom would bake with me on the weekends - that was our time together.

Zac Posen

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.

Zac Posen

I feel very fortunate that I make everything I wear head to toe every day.

Zac Posen

I don't cook ribs in my own home. I let my dad cook the ribs. He's from St. Louis, Missouri. I like to use a grill, but that's my dad's domain.

Zac Posen

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

Zac Posen