I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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.
It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.
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.
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.
It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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 like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
