I can’t tell you how many women I meet who start off—you know, they don’t walk up to me and say, “I can’t find the right color sweater.” They say to me, “I just survived cancer.” There’s just a bigger sort of story that needs to be told about the way women treat themselves, and that was hard for me to talk about because, to be completely honest, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with style my whole life. I’ve had my issues with self-esteem.
…I feel like a lot of women get very intimidated by the idea of fashion, and rightly so: it’s expensive, it’s exclusive, it’s not for everybody. But style is really about more of who you are, not of what you wished you looked like, but being more accepting of your circumstances—what your budget is, how old you are, whatever it is. The idea was to say, “Hey, you can revise your story, you can reframe your perspective.