Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice.

I go to the gym every morning for a couple of hours, then I come to work, whatever is on the plate for the day, I do it. I don't ask many questions, I go where I am told to.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

I always say I lived my life with my grandmother. She was emotionally stable, and she was very encouraging to me.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.