After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.
The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.
I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.
Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
The first time I ever came to fashion week, everyone was wearing heels.
Walking the shows at New York Fashion Week was such a great high.
'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.
Fashion Week is so important for designers.
I want to be like a Wendy Murdoch or a Georgina Chapman.
No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
I was asked to model but I never took up the offer.
I love Versace; I love Donatella's vision! It still has that '90s supermodel vibe.
I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.
One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!
I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'
Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.
The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
When I made my debut, I remember bridalwear being the only thing you ever showed at a runway presentation.
