This is so hard because I'm such an honest person and it's so hard for me to do these kind of things because the answer is I probably take things off.

What's the one piece of advice you have for someone going through a hard time?

Go right through it.

Like right through it.

Feel it.

Be in it.

Don't avoid it.

Go completely in it.

Feel everything and then go right through it and get out the other end.

Many of these things you don't have a choice.

You know, it's that expression, it's how well you walk through the fire, but you walk through it.

What's the one thing you do when you need strength?

I think I, well I probably, I spend time with my kids and just to be around them because they're the best of me and I've learned something from all of them differently and I think they're really interesting people, but I feel stronger when I'm with them.

What's one piece of styling advice you've gotten from your kids?

My daughter tells me I wear too many trench coats and I know there are certain things they wouldn't want me to wear.

I think I stopped wearing certain things when I had teenagers.

Is there something they love seeing you in?

You know the nicest thing is I've realized as my children have gotten older, when I put myself together nicely or when I'm creative and I'm doing something fun, they're so happy.

I think it's a way of seeing that their mother's being herself and feeling good.

Tell me about the one time your kids wore your old red carpet dresses.

What's the story behind that?

That was just an experiment in here's some old clothes, here's some vintage, here's some things you can cut up, here's something you can do it all these different ways.

Who are you?

What do you want?

You know, I don't work regularly with a stylist.

I don't like the idea of just somebody putting clothes on me or on my kids.

I don't think they like the idea of being styled by someone else.

So much of clothing is identity and if someone else is styling you and if someone else is dictating who you are and what you wear, especially as a mother, I want to know who my children are.

And so I want to put things in front of them that help them question or break the box or say I don't like this or this doesn't feel right.

So you're always trying to just put different options in front of them and see where it takes them.

Tell me the one moment you knew you wanted to start a fashion business.

I was a punk.

So when I see very expensive corporate clothing that is made to look punk, it's the opposite of what punk is.

So one thing I was with my children and it wasn't a one moment,

but it was a series of moments with them realizing that the way young people decide clothing does not feed as much as it should into their individuality and creativity.

What's the one focus of your new fashion business?

The focus is about how we can contribute and how we can share our business with other people, how we can all work as a collective and make it nice for customers and for people to play.

So we're very focused on that as our business model.

What's one piece of advice you'd give to somebody starting a business?

I think you make something you truly enjoy and you hope that it brings the same level of interest and joy in someone else.

So to try to be really bold in creating something that you actually really do stand behind.

And understanding why you're doing it.

Are you doing it for finances or are you doing it because you believe in something and you're creative and excited?

And I think there's a difference.

What's the one trait you look for in a collaborator?

I think someone who's bold and maybe a little mad, a little bit of madness.

Why is that important?

I think while it's very important to be thoughtful and ethical and considerate,

it's also very important to have a little madness, have a little wild, get out of the box, get out of your head and be willing to make a fool of yourself, make a mess.

What's one piece of advice you'd want to give your younger self?

Oh, so many things I'd like to warn her about.

I think it's taken me a long time to get back to her.

I didn't trust my madness.

I didn't think it was a good thing when I was young and I think it's a part of me.

It's important.

Would you say you're creating for her now?

I think that's a very nice way to put it.

I think, yeah, I'm trying to find her again.