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.

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

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.

We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

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.