Exude unconditional confidence.

At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

When someone new walks into a room, the first thing we notice about that person is probably their gender. And the second things is what they're wearing. And based on what they're wearing, we start making certain assumptions about them.

Whenever people tell me they don't know how to get inspired, I say "What's the matter with you?! I could stay in my apartment and be inspired!"

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

I have a very Socratic approach - I pummel the designers with questions, so when I get them to step back from the work and look at it with me, they'll eventually see what I see, coming to it fresh and unencumbered. That's always very gratifying because they feel a responsibility and an ownership of a solution.