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

I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.