I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

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 had no fun. My family was too serious.

Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body - this is with men and women.

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

I'm not interested in types. I'm interested in archetypes.