Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

I love crazy, gaudy bling.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.