I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.