Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.

Remember, channel your inner winner.

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.