I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I’m much more of a girl that’s a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
We got a lot of letters of people who didn’t like them, like my own family who thought they were unnecessary and unpleasant and taking advantage of women in a sad situation – I never saw that. And I think that sometimes, you have to take a risk.
I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?
I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don’t think that I was that literal.
I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom’s passage through their new life together.
I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
It’s hard to balance everything. It’s always challenging.
I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.
The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
The funny thing is that I’m the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who’s traveled with me. Normally, I’m in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.
I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.