It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

I don't believe in doing collections anymore.

It felt like strappy sandals were looking really old lady-ish; really dated and not cool.

In the past there were two things that motivated me then: independence, and passion about what I was doing. And those are still the things that motivate me now. I still have that passion for creating a product. And I will never be dependent on a man. I will never be dependent on a husband or a boyfriend or a father. That's one thing that's really important to me.

I had to put the company through a reorg, raise a new round of financing, and sort of press the restart button. But my feeling was that I wasn't going to be bullied. I wasn't going to let them take me down. I had to pull myself together and move forward.

Everyone in my office wears it all winter, it's our uniform because it's the easiest thing to wear.

The next few years is really going to be focused on shoes.