I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

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.

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

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.