I help design my own tennis clothes.
Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
I do want to get more involved with clothing, TV shows, movies.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.
I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.
I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.
I wanted to be a fashion designer.
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
I interned with Marc Jacobs in college, then worked at J. Crew. I learned a lot about how to fit clothes and what kinds of things sell and why.
Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.
I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'
There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
I've always wanted to design clothes.
The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.
I'd love to design bridal dresses.
Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.
My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.
The clever thing about the designs on 'Strictly' is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.
For myself, I went into an industry I wasn't educated on, and I thought, 'Hey, yeah, let's do this. Awesome.' And I've really had to educate myself in the fashion world: undergarments, fabrics, and learning their language, but it's been really great.
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
