Always aspire to become the next you, not someone else

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

I wanted to do something not just commercial but also covetable.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look