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.

I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.

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.

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

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

Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.