If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

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.

The power of the media is really the only new issue in the last 50 years, probably.

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.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.