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

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.

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.

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

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

I think as humans we're nostalgic creatures and that's what we do. We go back to things that have a semblance of something comforting, or enough time passes that it seems cool again, or maybe it's something that some people didn't even experience.