"I don’t consider myself a normal person, and piercings aren’t something you normally see."

'I am ageless. I have been in New York for fourteen years.'

Someone please order a hit job.

"I’m everything. I’m a surfer, snowboarder, skater; you can call me ghetto, too, I guess."

It’s not fashionable to love the Upper East Side these days.

"I like things not too funky, but not too ordinary, like you can wear it every day, but still it is something fabulous."

"I grew up in Georgia. We tend to be a little vain, and we do not mind maintenance routines."

Chelsea’s Starrett-Lehigh Building houses the offices of Martha Stewart, Hugo Boss, Nina Ricci, and Club Monaco, plus a passel of product-and graphic-design firms. No wonder the elevator crowd looks so good.

"I come from a sort of crafty family. We were always making things at home."

The Proenza Schouler boys reconstruct the birth of their spring collection, from a book found in L.A. to a Japanese kimono, by way of Karen Blixen.