Kanye’s 19 Year Old Stylist Speaks, “Take your jeans to the tailor.”

He’s 19, he’s White, and he’s awkwardly cool. Dude is Yale sophomore Cassius Clay, Kanye West’s personal stylist. Clay grants his FIRST interview with Opening Ceremony and talks his parents’ reaction to his collabo w/ Ye and his personal style.

Photo: Opening Ceremony

• On his parents’ reaction when telling them that he was taking a semester off from Yale to work with Kanye West: My father is in his 80’s and my mother in her 60’s so they’re not exactly Kanye’s typical listening demographic. Still, they could appreciate opportunity and were very supportive of a productive pause in my track at Yale. My mother made a Twitter account to follow Kanye (not me) and I’ve found both Graduation and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in my father’s car.

• On his favorite stylists? Anna Della Russo succeeds in making fun elegant and elegance fun. Brana Wolf is fluent but not overbearing in her allusions to film and literature.  Grace Coddington is relentlessly witty. (fyi: Russo is currently the editor at large @ Vogue Japan)

• On the one thing in the world that everyone should try: Ideally–the epautre risotto at Taillevent in Paris. Practically–taking one’s jeans to a tailor.

Peep the full interview here.