I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.

The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

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.