I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

You can only go forward by making mistakes. I'm twenty-seven, not fifty-seven. I'm not Givenchy, I'm Alexander McQueen.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.