I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

I just hate talking about myself.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

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.

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.