I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.
If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.
I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.
When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.
For myself, I went into an industry I wasn't educated on, and I thought, 'Hey, yeah, let's do this. Awesome.' And I've really had to educate myself in the fashion world: undergarments, fabrics, and learning their language, but it's been really great.
I'm very new to the fashion world, but it's such an exciting world to get into.
Certainly, it's not unprecedented in the fashion world to use human hair on clothing.
I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'
I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.
