A Lot Of The Things I Did

You Always Notice A Facelift On A Woman. It's A Tightness Around The Ears, And The Scar Is Usually Inside The Ears. If I Suspect It's Been Done, I Usually Move Around Until I Can See It. But With A Man, It Actually Pulls Your Beard And Your Sideburns Back, And That's What's So Strange.

Fashion Is Much More Collaborative Than One Might Think. You Have To Have An Idea And Vision And You Have To Communicate That Vision To A Team Of People And You Have To Create An Environment That Allows Those People To Give The Best That They Can Give.

This Is Something I Realized After Stepping Away From Women's Fashion For The Last Five Years. When You Are Inside, It Is Such A Tiny Group Of People Who Think That This Is The Most Important Thing In The World. But When You Get A Little Bit Of Distance, Someone Will Say To You Something Like, "don't You Think That Shoe Is Blah?" And I Will Be Like, "what Shoe? I Don't Know What You're Talking About." It Is Very, Very Inside.

I Went Through Some Tough Times Because If You're Used To Having A Voice In Contemporary Culture And All Of Sudden, You Don't Have That Voice, You Don't Have That Outlet. I Didn't Appreciate That. I Didn't Understand How Important That Was To Me. And All Of A Sudden, After Investing All This Time And Energy, I Had No Identity. I Didn't Know Who I Was. I Didn't Know What I Had To Say. I Didn't Have A Way To Say It. It Was Very Painful.

I Don't Work For Money Any Longer. I'm Fortunate Enough Not To Need To Work For Money, But I Work For Pride; I Work Because I Love To Work, And So The Idea That One Could Lose Control Of One's Own Name And That Things Could Be Produced With Your Name On That You Were Not Proud Of Scared Me.