Designer

The most important message is to let me just focus on making the most beautiful normcore clothes, but as luxurious as possible.

I don't sleep as much as normal people do.

For me, just as a social recorder of 2016, there's a new girl that emerged that can shop in between Zara and designer and still maintain a sense of her personality and identity.

I started off as a kid who didn't care what my education was.

All the skateboarding brands that I was into had graphic T-shirts. In the '90s, there were different styles that went along with the different influences in skateboarding, whether that be hip-hop or rock and roll and grunge. And that's what I was into, so I was following all that.

When creativity melds together with global issues, I believe you can bring the world together.

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

People that are able to think in terms of concepts and offer us valuable forms of art are very exciting to me.

I think that, in a digital age, album covers are becoming a lost art.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they're the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you're brand means within a T-shirt.

I don't have the patience to be a non-creator.

As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

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.

Everything I do references something that influenced me.

For me, there's a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it's boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.