
“Those injuries sucked, but when I look back I'm kind of grateful for them, because I had a lot of downtime to just be an artist. I was always making stuff and drawing and painting.”


“It's a big responsibility of a designer to be making things. People forget that their clothes are made by hand. These are skilled sewers, they're humans making our clothes.”


“When you're a little kid, it truly seems like magic. I would see his studio and how he would make a dolphin out of wood, and I was like, he's a wizard. That's amazing.”


“The creature part is about feeling like you're part of nature again. You're part of the ecosystem, part of the landscape. I just hope when people wear our clothes, they feel like that.”

“Find those things in your life that you love. Making things yourself is really important. Sewing things wrong or right, ripping them out, re-sewing them, that stuff really makes you a better designer.”






