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.

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

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.

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

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.