Designer Statement: I’m a fashion rebel. I want to break all the fashion rules. Who says you need just one inspiration for a collection? There are too many influences in this world to be restrained.

Backstage was a whirlwind when I arrived. So what if I was an hour late? All the organizers acted like it was a huge deal or something. Don’t all fashion shows start late? Besides, I was finishing my wedding gown. It was important.

When I arrived with my collection inspired by “Valley of the Dolls”, Esther Williams, the weather, and Caribana, I realized that my wedding gown was out of place. But since it was a tornado of activity, I got inspired again: a tornado wedding gown! It was such an amazing idea, why hadn’t anyone thought of it before? It’s a good thing I always travel with a roll of tulle. I wrapped it around my model-bride and came up with the neatest, most innovative dress ever!

Unfortunately, the tulle started unravelling on the runway and caught on the stiletto heel of a top magazine fashion editor! The model ripped the shoe right off her foot!

The model walked off the runway and as she and I came back on to take the final bow, the editor yanked on the shoe, the shoe pulled the tulle, the tulle unravelled the dress, the unravelling dress spun the model, the model fell on top of me, and we landed in one big piece of runway roadkill. Everyone told me they had never seen anything like it in the history of fashion. I’m doomed.