I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

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

I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show but there's always an underlying, sinister side to women's sexuality in my work because of the way I have seen women treated in my life. Where I come from, a woman met a man, had babies, moved to Dagenham, two up two down, made the dinner, went to bed. That was my image of women and I didn't want that. I wanted to get that out of my head.

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.