Nina Garcia

I've always been opinionated, unfortunately, to my mother's disappointment.

I tend to wear leather pants with crew neck sweaters or leather jackets with denim.

I was so passionate about being in the magazine industry, even when I first started at 'Mirabella.'

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.