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“If you want to engage a younger demographic – which we must to survive – they don’t want to go slow,” he says matter-of-factly later in the day to a group of global press. They want to go fast, they want it to be instant, it has to be challenging. And it better have buttons."
“I enjoy taking my time and just honouring my own process and not letting myself be swept up into the machine of this industry just for the sake of appeasing other people.”
“What I love about 'The Wheel of Time', with regards to gender politics, is that they’ve kind of turned it on its head and the power dynamics are shared.”
"I think that I'm doing this from a very genuine perspective in giving to my people things that we rarely have access to. I’ve always just wanted to dress my friends and people who look like me, a Salvadorian immigrant.”
“I often wonder what makes British design distinctively British, and, yes, in part it’s due to our love of mixing eras, colours and ideas with abandon.”
“People use music for protests. People use music for escapism. People use music for healing and meditation. People use music to fall in love, to connect, to find themselves,”
“What we try to do is create clothes that can live long lives. We try to tell a story, but afterwards I forget the story and I design clothes one by one. I really try to ensure every garment has a reason of being.”
“I tried to dress in quite an ordinary way because I thought that way I’d be less judged. I didn’t set myself up to be judged as a clothes horse. I really tried to dress down so that I tried to consciously, and unconsciously to some extent, remove myself.”
“I became aware that I spend a lot of time hiding from myself, and the most effective way I’ve found to deal with this is to go into worlds where I felt invisible.”
“Halston was really part of that early 70s counter-culture and I had no idea about that. Most people only remember the Studio 54 persona, but that was such a small part of his life.”
“There needs to be more power in the hands of the artist. The pop music industry is changing so quickly now.”
“I am so proud of where I come from and fully embraced the sentiment of “knowing where you come from to know where you are going”.
“L.A has always been a very car-centric city, particularly the car culture based on the ethnicity of the east L.A neighbourhood. To bring that culture into the product is like a dream job and it’s a total honour. “
“Climate change is the biggest problem of our generation and the private sector has a responsibility to combat it.”
“I’m always interested in how people are interacting with art today. This is something that continues to interest me.”
“We’re not particularly interested in fantasy. We’re interested in how marvelous things are — as they are.”
“My plan is to keep my foot on their necks.”
“If you want to be a part of this culture, then learn about it from the people who are actually part of it.”
“There’s definitely a beautiful sense of naivety in trying to change the conversation and make a difference — and I feel like we can.”
“I am my harshest critic — I always have been.”
“The very first time I came to Paris, I fell in love.”
“I was more like a ship’s engineer trying to fix the valves and run up and down ladders trying to put out fires and make it look wonderful.”