In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.

I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat.