Travel Is The Ultimate Inspiration.

My Mom Was A Model. She Had Me At 20, So She Was A Young Mother.

You Need To Be Curious One Way Or Another As A Designer. Your Eye Has To Stay Curious. I Look At People And Think About How They Live. I Think About Bodies.

American Women Often Fall Into The Trap Of, "oh, These Are My Weekend Clothes. These Are My Work Clothes. This Is What I Wear At Night." It's So Old-fashioned. The French Are Not Afraid Of Their Luxury. Americans Can Be So Puritanical And Think, "that's My Special-occasion Bag." Whereas, For A French Woman, It's Her Everyday Bag.

You Make Sexiness Strong By Balancing It Out: Something Familiar With Something Unfamiliar, Something Masculine With Something Feminine, Something Streamlined With Something Rococo. It's A Yin And Yang. Women Are Made Of Layers, Your Mood Shifts, No One Is Neither One Extreme Nor The Other.

People Always Think That Designers Hate Each Other. And We're Certainly A Competitive Lot, But We Also Enjoy Each Other's Company. No One Else Knows What You're Going Through Other Than Another Designer.