With a star-studded client list that includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Roberts and Michelle Pfeiffer, Trelise Cooper is an internationally known fashion designer. Starting out with a boutique store in Auckland, New Zealand, during the mid-1980s, Cooper's ascent onto the fashion stage -- and the front covers of Vogue and Marie Claire -- is made more remarkable by the fact that she never received any formal training as either a designer or seamstress. Instead, Cooper relied on her self-confessed obsession for detail, as well as a natural eye for fashion. I was born a fashion designer she says, and soon after she set up shop, her clothes acquired a reputation for their bold use of pattern and intricate stitching. Cooper took up the Fusion Journey challenge to travel from New Zealand to New Delhi, India's capital. Although it's a city she had been to on business many times before, she says that she 'd never allowed herself the time to study its traditional dress in earnest. See more Fusion Journeys There she was tasked with creating a new fashion line that would combine her own sophisticated modern style with the vibrant, brightly colored traditions of Indian dress-making. In her own words, Cooper retraces the footsteps of her Fusion Journey. Trelise Cooper: I absolutely adore the historical aspect of clothing. My ranges are full of influences from 19th-century