I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

One thing about skating that I don't think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it's not the right music it can ruin a performance.

I used to get tons of letters that said, "I'll never get to wear you," or "I'll never get married in one of your dresses," or "I'll never have an evening gown like the one I saw on the red carpet." I thought that was sad, because you give your life to this and you end up reaching very few people. So that was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be.

I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.

I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.

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

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.