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

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

It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be. I moved to New York for that reason. I think I am a very good example of how you really can do whatever you want to do without having any kind of prerequisite experience of any of kind of connection. None of my family members came from this world.

The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.

I don't know if I would want to come back as anything but me. I feel really satisfied. I don't really want to be anyone else. I just feel like I've gotten everything I signed up for as me. I'm happy as me.

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

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.