I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.