The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.