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I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.

You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.