I try to make everything creative because it’s stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in.
Feminism to me means fighting. It’s a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I’m a feminist because I don’t think being a girl limits me in any way.
Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I’d obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.
Feminism is not a rulebook, but a discussion, a conversation, a process.
If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.
I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because my job has never been to be a role model for young women or teenagers.
What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.
Women are complicated. Not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
Then, people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple- When in actuality, women ARE complicated. Women are multifaceted. Not because women are crazy. But because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.
Some of what makes growing up hard for famous kids is that they don’t have room to do immature stuff. I was really happy that I could go to school and hang out behind the alley and be somewhat irresponsible.