I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

You just pray that something is going to hit you like lightning. Like a movie, a book, or a photograph, a painting, something that you can riff on it and learn more about it and explore it, and just go on a journey with it. So lots of times when I choose a theme, I'll also incorporate other things that I'm doing at that period.