I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.

I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.