So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.

I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

Fashion it's not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it's everything that makes up your life.

I'm conflicted. On one hand, I don't want to say that because you were a man and now you're a woman, you can't be in a women's fashion show. But I feel it's a dicey issue. The fact of the matter is, when you are transgender - if you go, say, male to female - you're not having your pelvis broken and having it expanded surgically. You still have the anatomical bone structure of a man.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

If you had pockets, you were associated with a labor force. It meant you had things to carry yourself. Otherwise, your lady's maid or your manservant would have done it for you.