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 love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

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

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.