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

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

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.

There is no way back for me now, I'm going to take you on journeys you've never dreamed possible

I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

There is no better designer than nature

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.