In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration.

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

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

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.