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

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

My parents are very comfortable with the way that I am, and I think they've always been. Without that, I don't think that I would have ever have been able to grow into the person that I am today. I never felt like I was hiding anything from them.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

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

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.

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.