All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
I never studied fashion design.
I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
