I went to art school to be a painter, but was too intimidated by having to live with what I thought was the intellectual rigor of an artist, so I became a fashion designer instead. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve

Even among the few truly original creative designers in the pantheon of fashion, Rei Kawakubo stands out as sui generis—something the world came to see in the 2017 exhibition Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between at

In 2011, I was invited to participate in the design of a house for a skateboarder in Malibu, California. The client, a former world champion pro skater turned business owner, wanted to create a house where one could skateboard on