I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

I knew since the age of four that I wanted to be a clothing designer. I read an article in LIFE magazine about two young ladies that graduated from Parsons School of Design, and when they graduated they went to Paris and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor opened a boutique for them. So I thought, "Oh, I just have to go to Parsons, that's all."

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.