My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.

The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

I like the irony in my work.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.