Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.
I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people.
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.
I used to sit in bed at night and flip through design-school catalogs. I found out that Parsons accepted a small number of high school juniors, so I applied my sophomore year and got in.
I went to art school first and thought that I'm going to design theater sets. That was my path.
I definitely want to design clothes at one point.
I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.
I always wanted to design for films.
I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
