What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

I remember being mad about having pink and red shoes. I gew up envying other girls' pink and red shoes.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at least deconstructing—conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichés of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.