No matter how much people in fashion think we’re so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.

I’ve had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend. If there was an effeminate guy, I was the friend. If there was somebody who was poor like me, I was the friend.

I’ve got what I want, and I’ve got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

People’s wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn’t really give you wages.

Every two to three weeks, I was changing around my room. My room was made out of nothing, basically – a magazine, a little radio, a little bed – and I had the sensibility to put things together and match things in a certain way so that they were very special.

I can give a beautiful present, and that may change the lives of people around me.

I think my heart is in a very good place. And I think this is why I’m achieving what I’ve been asking to do in the universe for so long.

We didn’t have a television, so we sat around the table, and me and my sisters and my mom would do these jobs, like, a penny for a piece, you know, these paper jobs. You know, what really saved me as a human today is my sisters and my mom.

In the beginning I didn’t want to do a menswear collection. It felt a little forced. And then I found that it was an amazing world.