Designer

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Ironic things are interesting.

My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.

From a very young age, as a teenager, I was into hip-hop and skateboarding and all those things that were akin to a kid in the '90s. All those things are what resulted in clothes.

The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.

I'm constantly inspired by my friends and the people I surround myself with and the cities that I'm traveling to.

It is an honor for me to accept the position of men's artistic director for Louis Vuitton. I find the heritage and creative integrity of the house are key inspirations and will look to reference them both while drawing parallels to modern times.

To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

I think the reason why Off-White exists is to modernize fashion.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

I want to put culture on a track so that it becomes more inclusive, more open source.

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

I like to look at fashion and relate it to the time when it was happening.

I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

The concept with Off-White is that I have no ideal target. It's more about trying to make something for everyone. And I think that's what helps make it unique. That there isn't a specific muse.