Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

My parents are very comfortable with the way that I am, and I think they've always been. Without that, I don't think that I would have ever have been able to grow into the person that I am today. I never felt like I was hiding anything from them.

For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.