-Welcome! -How are you?
I´m wonderful. I´m so happy to have you here.
So this book comes on the cusp of your 10-year
anniversary of your brand. -Yes.
-Congratulations. 10 years is amazing.
Thank you. Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ]
-This book has a lot of your designs,
a lot of behind the scenes stuff.
What did you set out to do with this book?
-Yeah. I mean, it´s 10 years.
It´s a lot of pieces, but I really wanted to,
you know, it´s time for kind of escapism.
So I wanted people to feel like they open this book,
they feel like they´re in a kind of a a dream fantasy world.
So whatever you´re kind of feeling,
you kind of just transform yourself into a new place.
-That´s wonderful. -Yeah, yeah.
-What a nice thing for a book to do for you.
-Yeah, yeah. exactly.
I mean, you know, because I didn´t really
write a lot in it. It´s very visual.
-[ Laughs ] -So I felt like I wanted to,
you know, just make people feel good
and, you know, there´s a lot of beautiful things in there
that we worked on over the years
that maybe people didn´t love in the beginning.
And so I´m glad that we were able to show them.
-One of -- you have a design of a dress you made
for Leslie Jones. You dressed her.
-Yes. -You continue to dress her.
-Yeah. -But the relationship --
your relationship with Leslie started via social media.
Can you tell us this story? -It did.
-You know, Leslie for her "Ghostbusters" premier,
which was a huge movie.
You know, she was having a hard time finding a dress,
which I thought was crazy, ´cause she´s amazing.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yes, she is.
-She really is. I mean, she´s so amazing.
And I just thought that was crazy.
And, yeah, I just responded with emojis, little hands.
Like, "Hi. I´m here. I´m happy to dress you."
And, um, and it was really just casual.
I just really wanted to make something beautiful for her,
And then we hit it off.
And I think she killed it on the carpet.
She had her "Pretty Woman" moment.
-Yeah. -And looked stunning.
-And then in turn, she then went to
one of your fashion shows. -She did.
-This was the first fashion show that Leslie had ever been to.
-It was. -And, um...
[ Laughter ] -...she was very unique.
Were you happy to have someone with Leslie´s energy
at one of your fashion shows? -I was.
At first, I thought someone fell and hurt themselves
because she was screaming so loud that I just was like...
I mean, and then she came in the next day.
We were fitting her for the Emmys and she was like,
"Baby, I thought I was at the Knicks game."
And I was like, "okay." -[ Laughs ]
-You know, I just don´t think she knew what it was
supposed to be. -Well, I have to think...
-But you guys... -But I loved it.
-I´ve been to fashion shows.
You do so much work... -Yeah.
-...and people walk out in these stunning dresses
and no one reacts. -Yeah, it´s...
-It´s very what you would expect.
People are very -- they´re almost trying to stay
as very still, because they will also
be in backgrounds of photographs.
-Yeah. And so everyone is posing.
-So I was -- when I watched this video,
I was very happy with how...
I thought this was a nice change up
to what you expect at fashion shows.
Take a look here.
-Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Whoo!
[ Laughter ]
Yes!
That´s right.
Come on, now. come on, now.
Whoo!
[ Screams ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I mean, it was amazing.
I mean, I just loved it so much
because Coco Rocha was the model there,
and she was like, "I love Coco so much!"
And I just love her like grabbing like Gina Gershon
and Patricia Clarkson who were like, "Who is she?"
You know, so it was just so...
But it made, I think, everybody in the room just like,
all the fashion people, who are so annoying,
it just made them, like, kind of like, let go
and remember that fashion
should be fun and that´s the whole point.
That´s what this whole book is about --
that fashion should be fun.
It should be easy to get dressed.
That´s, like, the whole point of it.
-Someone who I know to be a big fan of yours
and who also thought you were a lot of fun as a person
to watch on television was Amy Poehler.
And I remember working at "SNL" and Amy Poehler
did an impression of you on the show.
-She did. -And she ran into you the night
before she did it on television, right?
-Yes, yeah. and I was like -- I was like, 20 years old.
I didn´t really know what "SNL" was.
Don´t judge me. [ Laughter ]
And I was like a naive kid.
And I remember her being nervous and thinking
I was, like, going to judge her.
And I was like, "No, I´m -- I mean, what an honor."
Like, I was a kid. I was so excited.
And it was, I mean, amazing. I mean...
-Well, here´s just a, first of all,
that´s what you looked like 10 years ago.
-Uh-huh, yeah. -And --
-I look the same. -And there is Amy Poehler
doing a very, a pretty good, a pretty good impression.
-I let her borrow my wig. -[ Laughs ]
-And, no. I mean, it was amazing.
It was so -- it was really such a funny sketch.
And I mean, she´s amazing and so funny.
-Well, you have excellent taste in comedians.
-Clearly. -From Poehler to Leslie,
and congratulations on 10 years and congratulations on the book.
-Thank you so much for having me.
-It really is wonderful. -Thank you.