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

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

When brides ask me, "What's the best advice you can give me on my wedding day?" I always have the same answer: "Be yourself." Someone's marrying you, they love you for who you are, and they don't want you to be someone else.

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.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.

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.

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