The nature of fashion is family. You see that at almost every house, it was owned first by a family. It wasn't owned by a bank.

I love women. I get along with women more than men, and I have more women friends.

If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.

Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.