My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

When my second child was born, I gave up acting - two young children out on the road was too difficult to manage. I'd always written, but began to do so with real commitment now that it was my only creative outlet. I used all my acting techniques to do it. I still do.

When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.