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.

From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

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

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

Fashion should be fun and accessible.

The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

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.