“Rather than prattle on endlessly about art and concept, one is better served by living.”*

“When fabric is left to age for a year or two, it naturally contracts, and at this point, it reveals its charm.”

“Just as man lives and grows old, so too does fabric live and age,”

Sometimes something that you took notice of 20 years ago suddenly makes sense. It’s not like I see an exhibition and it automatically comes across in the next collection,” he says. It’s perhaps this sponge-like creative process that explains the layered, unclassifiable quality of his work.

“We clean up the table every time we start a collection. I like the creative arc to go through questioning, putting things on the table, redoing them. Sometimes you come out where you started, sometimes it’s a logical evolution of the season before, but it’s never that I think, ‘We sold this last season really well so let’s continue like that,’” he

“I do still believe in this job,” he says adamantly. “But the system, in my opinion, is in a crisis. I don’t want young designers to lose hope because in a sense, I did lose it. I’m pushing myself to create hope right now, and to tell you the truth, I don’t care about any other form of success.”*

“Think of the masters. You can’t produce any powerful art unless you’re possessed by it. Art chooses you, not the other way around. I think fashion, in all of its forms, chose me.”

Art chooses you, not the other way around. I think fashion, in all of its forms, chose me.

Georgia Lazzaro,