With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.
All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
I never studied fashion design.
I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
