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1. Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
2. 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.
3. I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. I’m not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
16. I’m only waiting for Lindsay Lohan’s fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. It’s a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
20. 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.