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.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

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

Fashion is instant language.

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.

This is an example of hypocrisy