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

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

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.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.