I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

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

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.

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.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.