 There is fashion and there are clothes and there are two completely different things. Fashion is effective when it makes you feel something. I moved to New York to go to college in 1989, and that was very much toward sort of the tail end of a certain kind of nightlife in New York. A half of my day, which was spent in school and doing homework, and then there was my entire evening and nightlife, which was then going back to my dorm, spending like three hours getting made up like a drag queen, and going to clubs all night. The whole reason you went out at night was to show off your look. So it wasn't going out for the sake of going out, but it was going out for the sake of showing your fashion statement. That kind of passion for expressing yourself through this medium was something that was very inspiring to me.