Life Is A Big Collaboration. And We

I've Never Told Anyone This, In An Effort To Run From My Past And Disguise It, I Got Rid Of All Of The Scrapbooks My Mother Kept Going Back To When I Was A Baby. Truly. So That's Why Whenever Talk Show Hosts Or A Producer Asks For These Pictures, There Are Barely Any. My Sister Had A Few, But That's It, And This Was Before Digital. I've Never Told Anyone That, But That's The Truth.

I've Never Said I'm A Fashion Designer.

I Had This Wonderful Career And Thought I Would Retire As A Teacher.

I Learned Early On In Teaching How Easy It Is To Hurt A Young Person And That's Never My Intention.

The Color, The Shape, And The Texture--none Of It Is Accidental. Every Item We Wear Has A Glorious (or Sometimes Not So Glorious) History, And That History Extends Back Years--centuries, Even--before Oscar De La Renta's 2002 Collection.