S&S: What informs your thinking about your style? What do you look to? Movies, music, books? Could you share some of your inspiration?
GP: My inspiration isn’t based solely on aesthetics or clothing itself but also attitude and aura. Besides the usual suspects that most people will mention, like James Dean, Marlon Brando, and whatnot, some of my other inspirations come from people, characters, specific scenes and moments in film and history, and subcultures - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The Outsiders, Brokeback Mountain, Fargo season 2 & 4, Ole Munch, Chino in The Wild One, Budd and Michael Madsen in general, Cliff Booth, Snake Plissken, Stefon Diggs when he played for the Bills, Kurt Cobain, A$AP Rocky, The Clash, Dick Curless, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur, Tom Mix, Marty Robbins, 50’s biker gangs, Southern California’s cholo culture, the 1976 Oakland Raiders, the NY and London punk scene in the ’70s and 80s and a bunch more, there’s just too much to mention. All of this has carved out my style today.