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

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

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?

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

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.