I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.