I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what the….

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde..

My parents loved me, and I think they realized that I was probably not going to have a normal 9-to-5 job. For the longest time, my dad thought that I….

I don't know if I would want to come back as anything but me. I feel really satisfied. I don't really want to be anyone else. I just feel like I've g….

In American culture you leave home at 18. In the Asian culture, your parents don't really want you to leave home. So my parents just thought I was go….

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky..

My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their an….

I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, ….

The way my mom dressed was one of my earliest inspirations, in those '80s suits with shoulder pads and things like that. For years, I ran away from t….

When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. ….

It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be. I moved to New York for that reason. I think I am a very good example of how you really can do wha….

You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always n….

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and….

I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never….

I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or f….

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there..

Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now..

This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to mak….

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?.

What I was interested in wasn't popular and young, but I never really deviated from doing it. I just decided that I was going to go full force into e….

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked..