When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.

I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.

I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.