Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.

The older I get, the more I prefer to talk to old people. Old people or kids.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

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.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.