Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

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.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

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.

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.

The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.