Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.