There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
Glamour to the outside world is taking some sense of care in your appearance and should give you inner confidence. You can do a full on look or you can do a 'less is more' look but you want to have those components, those little things that are special to you.
Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.
The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.
In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.
My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore.
Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.
Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.
For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.
We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.
I cherish my time off and the solitude that comes along with it.
I think it's really important to try to eat seasonally as much as possible. It helps put people in touch with what's happening locally and with nature.
I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.
I like to vegetate when on vacation given my busy schedule when I'm at work.
I don't cook ribs in my own home. I let my dad cook the ribs. He's from St. Louis, Missouri. I like to use a grill, but that's my dad's domain.
I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.
A great trick for frying is to put a popcorn kernel in the oil, and when it pops, you're ready to fry.
