Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.