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.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

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

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.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

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.