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.

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.

Stay awake. Spread awareness. Take action.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

The high that I got from helping people and being around the love was better than any other high I've gotten from any drug

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.

Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.