I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.