"I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it."

"I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves."

"I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that."

"I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty."

"There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people."

"I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs."

"After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity."

"My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream."