"It’s a matter of layering both color and texture. When you’ve been a cat for a long time, you know texture."

"I try to go for a theme most days. Like I’ll be a pilot or an animal."

"I think that dark things that scare people have a lot of beauty to them."

"My family are jewelers, so I grew up in that world."

"I don’t consider myself a normal person, and piercings aren’t something you normally see."

'I am ageless. I have been in New York for fourteen years.'

"I’m everything. I’m a surfer, snowboarder, skater; you can call me ghetto, too, I guess."

"I like things not too funky, but not too ordinary, like you can wear it every day, but still it is something fabulous."

"I grew up in Georgia. We tend to be a little vain, and we do not mind maintenance routines."

Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh Building houses the offices of Martha Stewart, Hugo Boss, Nina Ricci, and Club Monaco, plus a passel of product-and graphic-design firms. No wonder the elevator crowd looks so good.