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

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

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 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.

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

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.