I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself.
I think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.
When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held steadfast to the fact that I had a dream, a reason why I'm doing this... that it was bigger than this moment.
I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.
I don't care if the critics don't like me. I want to be the people's designer, like Diana was the people's princess.
An Isaac Mizrahi fashion-show ticket signed by Steven Meisel. I rushed up to Meisel at the end of the show and asked him to autograph the card that had his name and seating assignment on it. It was an incredible moment when he shot the autumn/winter 2014 Moschino campaign.
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.
I don't really shop unless it's thrift.
I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There's no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.
The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most iconic images ever.
There's a lot of fashion that I don't respond to and I just walk on. I always look for things that make me happy, and in my work, all I'm doing is trying to convey that joy. Fashion should always be fun.
I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.
Even as exuberant as my style is and as over the top as I may be, I can appreciate a classic when it's really well done.
I'm a very normal person with a very even keel.
You don't have to be born wealthy and have an aristocratic last name or have connections or all these things. If you have a dream, you can believe in something and work hard and struggle and fight for it and still have a chance to succeed.
My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.
My country is in the toilet. And when my country is in the toilet, the world is in the toilet.
I'm an introverted extrovert. My job sets me apart, but I'm not hammy and don't need attention.
If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.
Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.
