I always love trying to put my arms around more people. As a designer, it's a great compliment when people wear your clothes or buy your products, so to do things that are more affordable and have more of a distribution is always very exciting - especially when I can still bring my personality in complete, heavy doses. It's not a diluted version of me; it's a very clear extension of my personality.

People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.

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

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

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 follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work. I don't like to overexplain it.

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.