Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.
I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.
It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.
I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.
I definitely want to design clothes at one point.
I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.
I always wanted to design for films.
I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
