I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.

Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items.

If you want me to shine, you need to give me the parole to do that.

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 think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

I have to love the DNA of the brand fundamentally. I need to be able to fuse my personality with theirs. That's what I've done with Adidas, Swatch, and in a different way with Moschino. I really have to feel fused with 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.