[ICE: You're designing your own costumes. What happens after they are designed? What's the next step?]

There is this woman named Stephanie Handler in the city. She has sewn my costumes since I was little. In the beginning she designed them, but then I started to design my own...I design them, and I take the design, and I sit down with Galina and Stephanie and we see how they can actually work on the human body, because sometimes I will draw one of those giant fruit hats coming off someone's shoulder, and you have to figure out how to put that on a body.
--icenetwork, com, "Q and A with Johnny Weir: Johnny talks about new music, his TV show, and the paparazzi" by Linda Przygodski, June 14, 2008