Articles:
“I didn't consciously grieve [my father’s] suicide through fashion. But a death so sudden leaves a hole. And holes like that take so long to fill that you don't always realize what you're stuffing in there to fill the void. You're not self-aware enough to even comprehend what you're doing to soothe yourself. To distract yourself. To make you feel good about yourself. To project okay-ness to the world when what you feel is anything but okay.”
“Instead, I learned to be a nice guy. To shut my mouth; to mask all [my] vinegar with honey. And it ended at the bottom of a bottle. Because when you silence your true feelings, you end up overwhelmed. You start living for others and denying yourself. And ultimately you get really, really angry.”
“All humans have shadows, but most men—because of the way we're raised to shut off our emotions—often have very large ones. Usually they're filled with fear, grief, anger and shame. And since most of us have never been told that the full range of who we are (even the messy stuff) is totally okay, there's a crazy alchemy that occurs when we realize it for the first time.”