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

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 respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

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.

Men are always much more dignified than most women.

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