I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

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

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I use things that people want to hide in their heads. War, religion, sex; things we all think about, but don’t bring to the forefront. But I do and I force them to watch it

I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.