It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

It was very challenging to mentor the mentors, and yes, you do see more sides of my personality.

A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.

I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate.

If I could predict the trends, they would already be there.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.