The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.

I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.