I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.