Latest Jason Wu Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't know if I would want to come back as anything but me. I feel really satisfied. I don't really want to be anyone else. I just feel like I've gotten everything I signed up for as me. I'm happy as me.

  Jason Wu

  Want, Satisfied, Feels

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

• I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Goal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• In designing for the first lady, I tried to sort of be in her shoes, but I didn't really look at her as an important political figure. I looked at her as a woman who would like to wear a beautiful dress to an important gala.

  Jason Wu

  Beautiful, Shoes, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

  Jason Wu

  Men, Ideas, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

  Jason Wu

  Blonde, Feels, Know Me

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.

  Jason Wu

  New York, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

  Jason Wu

  People, Steps, Honest

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

• As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

  Jason Wu

  Want, Designer, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What I was interested in wasn't popular and young, but I never really deviated from doing it. I just decided that I was going to go full force into exactly what I wanted. I think there's a certain comfort that comes with age and experience, and when I got that, I think my work got better.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Age, Comfort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The polishedness and the sophistication were what I was interested in. I mean, give me a polka dot, a floral print, a pleated dress, a big fur coat, that was always my language, and it wasn't very "in" when I was starting out, so I had a difficult time in the beginning.

  Jason Wu

  Mean, Giving, Dresses

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

• I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Careers, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."

  Jason Wu

  Keys, Archives, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch. I mean, that's why I went into this business to begin with.

  Jason Wu

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• This is the hardest thing I've ever done, being in fashion business, because that's what it is at the end of the day, a business, and you have to make sure it works.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, The End Of The Day, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.

  Jason Wu

  Keys, One Day, Archives

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

  Jason Wu

  Two, Creating, Next

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

  Jason Wu

  Sleep, Needs, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

  Jason Wu

  New York, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My parents are very comfortable with the way that I am, and I think they've always been. Without that, I don't think that I would have ever have been able to grow into the person that I am today. I never felt like I was hiding anything from them.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Parent, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was 12 or 13 I already knew that I was gay. And then my interests were not conventional. So I was very different, in every sense of the word. And in an all-boys school, that's tough.

  Jason Wu

  School, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

• I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.

  Jason Wu

  Dad, India, Germany

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

  Jason Wu

  Inspiration, Important, Looks

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

• My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Taste, Antiques

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

• I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.

  Jason Wu

  Character, Space, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com