It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.
All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that's what I was into, so I was following all that.
For me, I analyze the modern girl, the girl that I'm friends with, and they're empowered: They pay their own bills. They have their own style. They wear clothes - the clothes don't wear them.
DJing is my only peace of mind. When the phone is off, I play my favourite songs really loud for myself, and I'm not talking to anyone; I'm not managing anything. It's just, like, a time when I can listen to music.
Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.
People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.
I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.
I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.
You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.
The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.
People, when they say 'streetwear,' they miss the central component, which is that it's real people; it's clothes that are worn on the street.
I always live in multiple places. I'm never in the same city for seven days.
I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.
My lifestyle doesn't really account for movies. I can't even remember what I last saw.
I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.
I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.
I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.
I don't do the vintage thing so much, just because it's not me. There are some vintage designers I'll buy things from, but mostly not.
Ironic things are interesting.
My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.
