“When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.”

“My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.”

“When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.”

“The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.”

“Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.”