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.

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.

Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.