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I Believe That It's Very Important To Get To Know People With Whom You Can Have A Substantive Dialogue About Design And Its Development. In Addition, Read Everything About Fashion That You Can Get Your Hands On. A Palpable Point Of View Is What Makes A Designer, So You Need To Be Confident About Yours.

I'm Much More Of A Leo Than I Am A Cancer.

I Am A Stickler For Good Manners, And I Believe That Treating Other People Well Is A Lost Art. In The Workplace, At The Dinner Table, And Walking Down The Street--we Are Confronted With Choices On How To Treat People Nearly Every Waking Moment. Over Time These Choices Define Who We Are And Whether We Have A Lot Of Friends And Allies Or None.

I Have A Very Socratic Approach - I Pummel The Designers With Questions, So When I Get Them To Step Back From The Work And Look At It With Me, They'll Eventually See What I See, Coming To It Fresh And Unencumbered. That's Always Very Gratifying Because They Feel A Responsibility And An Ownership Of A Solution.

I Do Things Like Hem A Pair Of Pants, I Do My Own Tailoring But I Wouldn't Attempt A Jacket.