I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
Even when I was just designing T-shirts people really gravitated to them.
I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.
I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth.
I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear.
I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.
The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.