I've learned a lot about doing accessories and making shoes and handbags. I don't think my perspective has really changed. The subtlety of understanding yarns, what makes a fabric what it is - I've learned technical skills and more about the craft.

It's funny because every time I go to a shoot, and I have clothes on, they inevitably come off. I just did one recently and the stylist was like, "So..." and you just know that they are going to get to the point where they say "Can you take your clothes off?"

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

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

My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.