We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.