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.

Daring to wear something different takes effort.

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.

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.

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.

You have to always work against what you did before, and even against your taste.

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.