Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

We got a lot of letters of people who didn't like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation - I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.