'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.
Fashion says a lot about a person.
The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.
I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.
I've had a great experience in the fashion business.
The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.