Big businesses can help by engaging aspiring entrepreneurs and promoting initiatives which support small businesses from within.

I think women have a lack of confidence. They often apologize; I was guilty of that too. When people have said, "Oh, look at your success," I would downplay it.

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.

It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.