Yes, I'm quirky, loud and crazy.

I don’t believe that fashion should exclude people – I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.

No matter where you are in the game, no matter how successful you might be, there will always be others out there who are more talented or more beautiful or more connected than you. Get used to it! If you start dwelling on everybody else’s genius, it’ll become a huge wave of doubt.

I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I’m not very trusting.

You don’t have to dumb down – you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I’ve found a couple – I’ve been lucky – but it’s probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

I represent luxury, and that’s what I love.

There’d never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: “This is too much – this is so you!” Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own ‘brand of me’ and saying ‘buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.’

I’m very determined, honest, open and definitely very energetic. I expect a lot as a boss and I’m very demanding, but I ask that of myself too.