I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

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.

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.