The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

I love uniforms because they allow you to hide. No one knows what you are thinking, so it's a very appropriate and correct way to be yourself.

Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

It's still feminine, but not in a romantic way. It's all about masculine and feminine, and being strong.

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.

People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.