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.

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

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

Fashion is instant language.

I want to confront myself. I challenge and doubt myself. Basically, what I don't like is to get bored.

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

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.