There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.