It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.

I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual

Fame should be left to the film stars.

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

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

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.