“I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.”

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

Ever since I was little I really loved boyish clothes – I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.