My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets. I worked at Clinique in the creative department for a summer during high school. And when I graduated from university, I worked at Prescriptives. My uncle [Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies] smartly had wanted me to go into a small brand - to figure out what part of the company I loved. I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

I've always been inspired by beautiful interiors.

I love Pilates, I really do, and I do it three times a week because it works well for me.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.