The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward. My customers are successful workingwomen. There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction. It is important to be chic.
I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else. People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral. Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead. Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work. You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.
You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same. I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.