Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

I'm not interested in how people dress.

I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

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.

What people sometimes interpret as quirky is my attempt to subvert the concept of luxury by introducing elements that are considered ordinary or commonplace.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.