Remember, Channel Your Inner Winner.

My Advice To The 10 Year Old Daughter Is: Fashion Happens In A Context. It's Societal, It's Cultural, It's Historic, It's Economic, And It's Political. So All Of Her Studies, Everything That Is Happening In The World, All Needs To Be Channeled Through Her In Order To Be A Good Designer.

I Believe That It's Very Important To Get To Know People With Whom You Can Have A Substantive Dialogue About Design And Its Development. In Addition, Read Everything About Fashion That You Can Get Your Hands On. A Palpable Point Of View Is What Makes A Designer, So You Need To Be Confident About Yours.

I'm Doing All That I Can To Prod The Industry And Get Them To Pay More Attention [to Larger Women And Petite Women]. Because I Find It To Be Reprehensible And Repugnant That Two Populations That Are So Pervasive In This Nation Should Be So Badly Neglected.

I Guess The Most Famous Person I Was So Extremely Exhilarated By Being With - And Actually Sat Next To Her At A Luncheon At The White House - Was Mrs. Obama.

I Would Certainly Rather The Industry Not Go Broke, But If That's What It Takes For Everyone To Acquire Some Values And Lose That Sense Of Entitlement, Maybe A Little Belt-tightening Wouldn't Be So Tragic.