Pretty In Pink

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good. I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing. Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be. Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know? Delete the negative; accentuate the positive! I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same. Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing. Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality. It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world. Don't dress to kill, dress to survive. Vanity is the healthiest thing in life. Jeans represent democracy in fashion.