Fashion is an instant language.

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.

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.

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.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.