Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

What I was interested in wasn't popular and young, but I never really deviated from doing it. I just decided that I was going to go full force into exactly what I wanted. I think there's a certain comfort that comes with age and experience, and when I got that, I think my work got better.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

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

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.

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 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.