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.
The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.
I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.
Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
Walking the shows at New York Fashion Week was such a great high.
The first time I ever came to fashion week, everyone was wearing heels.
'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.
Fashion Week is so important for designers.
No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
I want to be like a Wendy Murdoch or a Georgina Chapman.
I love Versace; I love Donatella's vision! It still has that '90s supermodel vibe.
I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.
I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.
So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.
By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.
The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.
I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.
