I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.

I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.

That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.