Rachel Roy

"My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since."

"I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty."

"I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there."

"I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it."

"I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that."

"I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves."