THERE’S VERY LITTLE ROCOCO TO MY AESTHETIC.

Florid, asymmetrical golden flourishes draped in velvet: not my thing. Rodriguez says that the cube is the perfect form, and I agree. I’m based on some bottles he collected in Brazil, but he has been a confirmed modern minimalist since he was a boy. He lived in a house full of French-provincial furniture, but his room was painted black and white and had a royal-blue carpet and crazy-patterned psychedelic op art on the walls. To quote

Lady Gaga: He was born this way.