Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.
I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.
In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away.
I feel like doing basic, casual pieces and then doing really elevated, more unexpected things is becoming more possible. I feel like I do eventually want to be able to address more categories, like active or evening.
I'm such a maniac about just having every last possible bit feel just as if so much care was put into it, and it was. It's almost like a really selfish experience to wear one of our slip dresses or one of our blouses because it's so luxurious in a secret way.
Any type of commercialization or, like I said, watering that idea down would be so damaging and frankly, be pretty uninspiring to me, because the fact that every piece is like my dream thing that I just can't get enough of and am just so excited to wear, is just the whole point of it.
I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.
I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.