You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.

Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

I didn't understand anything about fashion until I moved to Canada when I was 9. That's when I learned English and was exposed to fashion magazines like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

The world is what you make of it

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

What you need is an idea.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven.