I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company.

I think there is beauty in everything.

I am married to work.

I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

I find beauty in melancholy.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.