Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.
But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.
I'm an independent fashion house.
The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.
I would love to do my own line of clothes - something small.
For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.
I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colours.
I was getting paid to be involved with what I loved more than anything on earth: clothes.
