For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.
I don't play golf.
DJing is like a great tasteful art form.
From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.
I want Off-White to be a graphics-based brand.
I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.
In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today's world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol.
I'm fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.
Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.
I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.
I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision, and I'm inspired by it. It's sort of what makes me tick.
'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.
Clothing interests me, but it's not the endpoint of my interest.
I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.
I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn't putting my opinion first. It's supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.
To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.
My friends and me, we're the type that don't care. We're not into fashion. That's, like, millennial spirit.
The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.
I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but doesn't age well at all.
From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.
