The Daily's Fashion Los Angeles Awards Speech

You know, one connection that
I have, you know
To, I believe everyone in this room
But especially with like me and
Virgil and Don C and
Fonzworth Bentley and all the people from the
Infamous Tommy Ton then transferred to
South Park photo have dealt with in
Their life somehow, you know
Being ridiculed for liking fashion for
That being a career you
Want to take up like even
With the stylist that
I work with that’s my i always call her my
Baby of MAS "You’re my MAS and I’m your
Nicholas" And her brother’s a doctor
And somehow in her
Family she’s looked at like she didn’t do
As much in her life ‘cause she did
Fashion and something you know, and
She was the little girl that eight years ago
Showed me who Emmanuelle
Alt was back when I was, you know
Less informed about how to
Put my shit together

And I honest i’mma jump to a point just so
I don’t take too long i believe that the
World can be changed the world
Can be saved through
Design through unselfish design through
Unselfish creation you
Know, God is the number one
Creator i’m a Christian
I’m not tryna push my opinions on anyone
But in my opinion God is the number one
Creator and we, anytime we, you know, create
We’re extension of doing his work on
Earth while we’re here what can
We do for humanity? And, you know, in a way
The fashion is what defines the time
People could think in some
Way they’re higher classes
Some higher statuses that contribute more to
The world because, you know
They work on bombs
They work at technology, they you know
They school teachers whatever it
Is that seems to be somehow that type of
Profession that when you say
It everybody is, "oh, you’re a
Lawyer? Oh great lawyer? Motherfucker"
No knock to lawyers
But you know what I’m talking about so
There are no movies without fashion we
Define the times
We set in stone what did 2015 mean?
What did 2014 mean? You know? I
Always told Anna - "I wanna be in the
Middle of that conversation" As we all know
The Devil Wears Prada was about Anna
I said, "I wanna be in the middle of that
Conversation" Nah, I’m saying we
Know this so, where she was
Talking about the blue sweater and
Previous to Instagram and all
That type of shit do
You know this conversation
"you think you not part
Of fashion because you
Don’t datatata" Like the blue sweater, okay
You would know this
And somehow like me and my crew, you know
Like all these
Straight, black guys from Chicago that
No one knew why they
Were at the fucking show you
Know, wanted to say, let’s make
The conversation, you know, let’s make the
Conversation shorter between, you know
When the blue sweater goes from
A Wang show to when
It finally hit Kohl’s’ or something
Pre-Instagram, pre all that shit
Pre people, you know, wanted to
Show what they had
Before images were the new currency

When we talk about, you know
I was talking to
Rassi earlier and he was saying, you know
What his background was and you know
The way he appreciated
All of his opportunities that he has like
To just being in America and being able
To create and I told
Him he had to arm wrestle with Virgil on
Like who is the greatest guy
That I knew ‘cause
He’s definitely one of the top you know, one
Of these times when I look at like
Him and say "wow, " you know
I wish I could interact
With people in the way that
He interacts i wish that I could believe in
People unselfishly without, you
Know, worrying about how it may affect
Me, affects my reputation blabla
Or all of what fashion is because
I think that’s word fashion insiders
But everyone’s a fashion
Insider, you know it’s illegal to be naked
Everyone has some
Form of fashion, every single day
And I think it’s, the
Point I wanna make before I bring ‘em up
Because I wanted to make this
Point to this room really you know
We have the power to change the world
I believe that through design ‘cause
Design is the closest to
Truth problem solving
Truth is the closest to love
Love is the closest thing to God and God is
Love but we have to be unselfish in
Our approach which is the
Opposite of someone saying
"Kanye you can’t get in
This show ‘cause you’re
A celebrity" or some shit like that you know
The way we embrace celebrity, the way
What Miley’s had to go
Through in the past couple years
Dealing with the fashion bigots
And shit like that i’m not gonna give you
Guys the speech that Tarantino
Gave at the Lacma, i’mma
Say what the fuck he should’ve really said
You know the old guard accepting the
New guard by letting down their
Guard i don’t even know if I
Made one fucking good point

But what I wanna say is, this
Guy let me, a celebrity designer
Work at Milk Studio when Adidas
Couldn’t figure out where my
Office was we didn’t have windows
You know, it was cool, you
Know we’d go out and get a cup of coffee
We stole a bunch of free cappuccinos from
Down the hallway and I promised
Him that I was gonna be
Fucking good it wasn’t about
Me being a celebrity ‘cause
It could’ve been like
"what do you mean you got
A celebrity designer working
At Milk Studio? This is very authentic
Blablabla" All the shit and he told me
A story about this kid who stood on
His steps and shit, you know, waiting
For opportunities to design then went onto
One day become the youngest
American to run a French house
Called Balenciaga that he
Believed in that kid back then, believing in
Spending everything on
Alexander Wang and, I’m closing
Now i don’t move
I don’t leave my fucking crib
Unless I really believe
In someone i don’t read
The teleprompters blablabla
And I’m so happy that Jeremy is here ‘cause
Jeremy asked me to come here also
And Jeremy is another one of those bad
Motherfuckers that changed the game and
Always expressed himself i’m not
Gonna say shit else so all I’mma say is
I fucking love this guy and he sets an
Example to us as a humanitarian
As a visionary and as an innovator: Rassi