I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

Even mistakes can get you one step further.

I always wanted to be a fashion designer so I just have to remember that as long as I'm doing it I'm living the dream.

When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were unique, who all had idiosyncrasies and characteristics that made them individual. Those girls stuck around; you'd work with them season after season. But now it's completely different.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?