Choose your team carefully. So much of your success is due to the people who you surround yourself with. Your friends, your family, and the people that you work with -- they all play an important role in inspiring you and supporting you and giving you stability. These are the people in your life who will be honest with you.

Fashion creates a bit of a dream

Hips are absolutely key to every shape I do, because whatever you do at the top or bottom, you want to keep it slim and narrow on the hips. One thing is for certain: No one, man or woman, wants big hips.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.