For me, it s about embracing the liquidity of sexual desire. I love everybody. I m not really concerned with the outside as I am with the inside. I do love the fetish scene because it s really heartfelt. People are really attached to the look that s their sexuality, it really means something to people.
Fashion is a fetish in a way, but it s so consumer-driven and competitive.
Fetishism is so grassroots. When I was a teenager, one of the first gay jobs I ever had was working for Stormy Leather, a lesbian fetish outfit, and they re huge now. I grew up in San Francisco and that s what you do instead of getting a paper route. After my show was cancelled, I went through a period where I was incredibly fucked up on drugs. I m sober now, and that has made my work so much more satisfying.