I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

I wasn't as confident and creative in the beginning as I am now, so it was all very safe. But I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way . . . It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.