In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.