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.

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

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss].

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.