Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.
I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway.
From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan. ' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.
Nothing's faster than the Internet.
No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do.
Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.
I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.