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

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

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

I am in a key moment. I kind of understand that I have to use my work more completely without being ashamed.

To have to be sexy? That I hate. To be outrageously sexy? That I love.

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.