In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.

Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

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.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

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

I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is.