Life is not a solo act. It’s a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
I believe in letting karma do its thing. What comes around goes around.
Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren’t interested in being a megabrand.
Remember, channel your inner winner.
The element of fashion I’d like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it’s not so much about the clothes.
If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.
Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you’ll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you’ll run into every ex you have.
It’s so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don’t want to surround yourself with enablers.
Fashion it’s not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it’s everything that makes up your life.
Exude unconditional confidence.
I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they’re thinking, what they’re trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.
I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There’s no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.
My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.
I’ve been in situations where I’ve said to young people: “You’re so personable, you’re so articulate, you’re clearly so bright, you’re so good-looking – feel better about yourself!” But if at the core if you don’t, all those words mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.
So perhaps the real secret to style is filling yourself to the absolute brim with engagement. Loving not wisely, but too well and all that.
Whether it’s fashion or it’s home, it’s all about style. The clothes we wear send a message about how we are perceived, and our home does the same thing.
If you don’t have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.
At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.
Life is a big collaboration – and when you’re tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life’s not worth living – you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.