“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.”*

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.

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

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

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

was about admitting to not being perfect, about saying: ‘I’m dazed and confused, and I don’t give a fuck that I haven’t got everything worked out.’”

“Sometimes a literal reference is done so well that you almost feel like, I shouldn’t be doing this, because it couldn’t be done any better.”

Georgia Lazzaro,

“I like to see things differently,” says the designer, “and I hope that helps other people see things differently.”