A piece of fabric can get me going.

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

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make 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.

Creating a book and creating a collection involve a lot of editing.

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.

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!