You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

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 have always had a relationship with clothes.

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.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!