If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.

I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.