Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

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.

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

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

I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.