I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.
I never liked sleeping; I always think I am missing something.
I drape a lot. I cut. I have to touch. For me, it's almost impossible to start without that.
I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.
People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach.
I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.
I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpre...
When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.
Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got...
You think 24-7 when you're a creative person. And I find pleasure in everything - if I'm in a flea market, I'm there on my downtime, but I'm also there searching for the collection. I don't separate the two.
Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.
I think the women that we dress, the women who buy our clothes, they have a certain strength. It could be about the clothes, it could be about themselves. It's just attractive.
I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.
When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The i...
The bottom line is that red carpet helps us broaden the appeal of the brand. Calvin Klein used to be about a very specific woman, but we've dressed so many different women at awards.
