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I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

You can't really have like high end designers for everything.

I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

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. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.

I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about designing, more methodical. I want things to be a certain way, and I'm very precise, but school itself wasn't that relevant for me.