I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

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.

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 woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.