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

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

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.

I am a melancholy type of person.

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.