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

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.

Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.