"I'm a real believer in dressing tone-on-tone. I'm not saying you need to dress black. Dress just one color so the colors are not breaking your silhouette."

"In Colombia, where I was born and raised, women like my mother considered their appearance and personal grooming a matter of principle. There was never an occasion where she didn't show up looking picture-perfect."

"Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us."

"For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest."

"Wisdom principle 49 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 18."

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."

"Wisdom principle 74 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 28."

"Wisdom principle 46 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 41."