I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

I have worked with several dance companies.

One of my assistants found this old German machine. It was originally used to make underwear. Like Chanel, who started with underwear fabric - jerseys - we used the machine that made underwear to make something else