[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.

One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

I think the wrong things are kept private

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.