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

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

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

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

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

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

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.