When I first started my own brand, when I needed an icon, I had no other icon but myself. I had to create that. Jeremy Scott More Quotes by Jeremy Scott More Quotes From Jeremy Scott I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them. Jeremy Scott being-thankful grateful thinking There are the great people who have grown and loved me, like Katy [Perry] - who started as a fan and told me that one day she hoped I would dress her, and asked for a picture with me at a fan meet and greet. Now she's became one of the world's most important pop stars. I've supported her since the beginning, out of believing in a spark in her and giving her a chance because she was a girl who obviously seemed very passionate about what I am doing. Jeremy Scott girl stars believe Globally, proving myself working well with Adidas, showing my work could be globally distributed and loved and appreciated and still be challenging. Maybe I'm one of the first people on a larger scale to make more challenging and more unique items. Jeremy Scott unique challenges people The fact that people look at pictures so tiny on Instagram - people ask me about it popping on Instagram, but I didn't alter myself to be that. I didn't change for the screens, I've just been doing me. Jeremy Scott instagram facts people I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe. Jeremy Scott surreal shoes quality I have to love the DNA of the brand fundamentally. I need to be able to fuse my personality with theirs. That's what I've done with Adidas, Swatch, and in a different way with Moschino. I really have to feel fused with it. Jeremy Scott able dna personality I think one thing I've learned over the years is just that you're not going to ever please everyone, and the most important person to please is yourself. Jeremy Scott please-everyone yourself think you The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most iconic images ever. Jeremy Scott images mcdonald me golden Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you. Jeremy Scott feel you fashion nature I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show. Jeremy Scott amazing city start my-own Even as exuberant as my style is and as over the top as I may be, I can appreciate a classic when it's really well done. Jeremy Scott well-done style appreciate i-can There are so many serious things in the world; I just choose not to be one of them. Jeremy Scott choose things serious world I look at myself like a farmer, harvesting my wares and taking them to the market, and then I go back and do it again. Jeremy Scott farmer go myself look I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.' Jeremy Scott little-girls myself look thinking We have to fight for everything we believe in. Jeremy Scott fight everything believe I don't make clothes for the critics. Jeremy Scott make clothes critics A lot of my collections are informed by nostalgia. I think that's because I loved clothes early on. I remember, at maybe age five, being concerned about what I wore, right down to the underwear. Jeremy Scott loved clothes age remember Designers have a reputation for setting the tone for what people - and especially women - are supposed to wear. How long their skirts should be, things like that. I have a different philosophy: put something out there with humour; let people see that and come around to it on their own. Jeremy Scott reputation women long people I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words. Jeremy Scott words emotions feel try I've met people with my prints tattooed on them, my face tattooed on them - I have that commitment and love. Jeremy Scott face love people commitment