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

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 you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

Fashion should be fun and accessible.

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!

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