"Each of my garments holds hope and ambition. I am driven by the desire to preserve traditional tailoring. Then there are the challenges that I face and choose to fight as a dressmaker (and as a person) that drive me to oppose 'fast fashion', the pace of today's industrial production, the boring conformity of clothing, the exploitation of labor in the production of mass-produced goods, the use of synthetic fabrics, and the water pollution caused by textile dyeing."