I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

I'm really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn't.

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about it very much) but would any of us really want to be one of those people?

I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions.