I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it.

When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort.

On a personal level, I think dressing is such a form of expression, and when you do events, it's important to feel as though you are authentically yourself.

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments.

I am just a history nerd.

Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.

I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.

Personally, getting into college was a big deal because I realized it's probably one of the only things I've fully planned. The rest of my life has been, for the most part, a nice little happy accident. I'm glad that it happened this way, but it's nonetheless unintentional.

When you're a part of any protected class, whether it is being a woman, a person of color, a part of the LGBTQ community, or an immigrant, we're expected to get everything right and be the embodiment of perfection when it is not expected of other people.