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

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

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

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.

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

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.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.