Virgil Abloh

My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

In my case, everything starts from Marcel Duchamp and the new expressive possibilities he gave us with his ready-mades. I transferred his artistic language into today's world, choosing, for example, to use pedestrian-crossing stripes as a symbol.

I was never meant to, like, work and then turn it off and sit on the couch. I just have a vision, and I'm inspired by it. It's sort of what makes me tick.

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.

I want to put culture on a track so that it becomes more inclusive, more open source.

As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.