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

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

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

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

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.

People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.