I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race.

When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because I'd just moved to Canada. My mom was always trying to get me into proper clothes, but I never wanted to wear them, and now that's all I wear.

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.