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My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

I'm not really a fashion person.

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.