3 min readJul 14, 2022
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- Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
- If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don’t. I always see where I didn’t do things the right way.
- I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
- Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
- I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It’s a metaphor for women’s lives, their creativity.
- 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.
- I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
- New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I’d shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle — it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
- That was a major goal for me — to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
- I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
- When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn’t find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That’s when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
- I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
- All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can’t design anything without thinking of how a woman’s body will look and move when she’s wearing it.
- I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
- I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
- I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
- When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
- I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
- It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
- Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.