You can get insular with fashion.

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

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.

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

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

I am a melancholy type of person.