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

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.

London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration.

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.

I'm the pink sheep in the family.

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