PS: That leads into the conversation around your pièce de résistance, the leather jacket. As much as you sell prints to scale, the hand-painted garments are really a signature, blurring the line between art and design.
PC: When I was younger, I used to be obsessed with Vivienne Westwood, the sort-of punk movement in England, the DIY aspect of that. I still find it exciting: destroying, customization. It takes a lot of work, a lot of patience, a lot of time, but it's a signature thing for me now. I think they're art pieces in themselves, like they could be framed. This season with the leather, we've actually amped it up a lot: made things much more intricate with lots more colors. It looks really high fashion, but the fact is, it's painted by hand.
The more I'm painting and doing my artwork, the more I feel that they're becoming separate entities, the fashion and my artwork. But I feel like I can be an artist, I can be a fashion designer: I can be good at both.
