Daring to wear something different takes effort.

I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

I had no fun. My family was too serious.

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.

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.

My family was too serious. They didn't take care of me - it was a very serious and severe life. Not severe in a bad way; just boring - like totally neutral. I felt no emotion.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.