Designer

You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

I always joke that, at any given time, I'm supposed to be at two other places.

I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.

Art is made in hindsight.

'Creative director' is a catchall phrase for giving ideas. To me, it obviously means more than that. It's like being a counselor.

I've always had this in some ways pessimistic and in some ways realistic idea that I'm the lowest rung on the ladder.

Big teams are absolutely vital if you want to achieve certain results when you're working on larger scales, both in terms of physical size and productive quantities.

I'm a kid from Chicago. I know what it was like to see Obama become president. We felt the tectonic plates of the world shift.

I'd do anything at the right time, and I would also do things at the wrong time if they felt right.

I've been DJing since I was in high school.

From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

Clothing interests me, but it's not the endpoint of my interest.

My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

I pride myself in collaborating and being a creative director, and creative direction isn't putting my opinion first. It's supporting an artist so they get the most out of the project.

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today's world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol.

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

Criticism doesn't worry me.

The best New Year's resolution I ever made was probably to, like, pursue fashion in the spirit that I have now.