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

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

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.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

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

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.