I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.

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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

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I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

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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.

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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

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I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

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When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.

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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

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They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.

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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

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