The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

I love to be in New York. And I think anybody who's a designer, who says they're doing an urban collection, thinks about the streets of New York. I cannot do an urban collection thinking of Bangkok. Or Mexico. To me, it's totally instant, totally connected with what attracts me these days. But this resurgence of a modern, cool way of being dressed is something that stimulates me and is totally right for me. Even now I don't like to show something that is some futuristic utopia.

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.