I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

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

Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of a ball gown is not in itself a modern concept, and women need to wear that for a certain presence in Hollywood. I'm also aware that a starlet might go to more than one place that night so the piece could also offer, maybe not a revolution, but an evolution.