Things are recalibrated according to new perspectives and perceptions. It's fascinating to me.

As I've matured, I've developed more confidence in pattern mixing and in having a slimmer fit and in taking some risks, and I enjoy it!

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

I'm so lucky. I've met a lot of famous people.

My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.

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