My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

Perhaps the street photographer has been replaced by the security camera.

When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling.

When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

The relationship between looking and desire is really about the promise of revelation - the hope that the subject of your gaze will reveal something to you - whether or not that revelation is prurient. And that's really what eroticism is - the anticipation of disclosure.

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.