I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.