You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.
I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.