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

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

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

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

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

I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.