Take Tom Sachs as an artist. His brain is more brilliant than anything, so of course, anything he puts out over a ten-year period is going to continue to be super relevant. But if you look at some artists, they have one good idea, but unless you know where it's coming from, it's not going to be lasting.
As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.
I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.
I look at culture, and I see what the kids around me are wearing, and I see a particular style. I understand the space between fashion and streetwear.
Music needs a visual element to make it tangible. So, naturally, there's gonna be a synergy between high-level art direction and high-level albums.
Criticism doesn't worry me.
There's no line between a designer and consumer.
The amount of random conversations that lead to culture-shifting ideas is insane.
My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.
For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.
All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.
I just wanna start a brand that inspires and is geared towards youth.
My style is to never say no.
I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.
There's a part of me that's trying to represent kids that don't necessarily have the same outlet that I have. I'm not looking towards a new demographic. I'm looking towards the demographic I came from.
I've been DJing since I was in high school.
My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.
I can come up with 30 T-shirt designs in a day, but it's just about where to slot each of them. That's streetwear to me. It's about knowing where to buy things, not this mass thing you can get anywhere.
The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.
I don't sleep as much as normal people do.
