The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

Making clothes that everybody can wear is also something that stimulates me a lot, because I have this edgy, fashion-y part, but I am also totally involved with a brand that is about how people dress, and what they want. And it's a whole other look you can have on the street. It's exciting because it speaks to the other part of my job and what my passion is. A designer wants to make something useful for as many people as possible.

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

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.