My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

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

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

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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

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

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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.

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

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