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I made a rule not to be on reality shows.
My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.
I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.
I love a little bit of glamour and I love tall girls.
Actually, I'm probably 99-and-a-half percent plastic now.
I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.
My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.
I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.
I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.
My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky.
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.
My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.
We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.
The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.
I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.
I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?
Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.
Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It’s about value, not quantity.
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.
When I was growing up, you sort of did the unthinkable. You did something that has never really been replicated.
I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.
As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.
I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.
When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
I never thought of myself as being limited to fashion. I'm a designer, and if you have a vision, you can apply that to anything.
I had a hard time in middle school. I was never really quite me until I was 16 or 17, and things like bullying didn't matter anymore.
Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.
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.
That's the fun thing about fashion: it changes. One day, we're into short, the next we're into full length for day, or half short and long.
I would buy Barbies and take them apart and then remake their looks. I used them for hairstyling. It was a whole process. I had a lot of dolls - like 150.
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.
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.
This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.
I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.
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 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.
There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.
For a while, I just thought that I wanted to be an illustrator because that's all I wanted to do. I also did some sculpting. It was always very artsy and very feminine, everything that I did.
The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.
I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.
I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.
I don't know if I would want to come back as anything but me. I feel really satisfied. I don't really want to be anyone else. I just feel like I've gotten everything I signed up for as me. I'm happy as me.
I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."
It's quite a pure relationship, designer and muse. I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch.
when I moved to Canada in '93, I started reading fashion magazines, and that's where I spotted the M.A.C ad that RuPaul were in. That's sort of how I first "met" you - in the red bodysuit. That was so iconic to me.
I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch. I mean, that's why I went into this business to begin with.
There's something to be said about a girl who knows what she wants. One of my favorite girls to dress is Diane Kruger. It's always so easy with her. I know her body and what works. When it's right, it's not a lot of effort.