Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

We are very excited to re-launch the collaboration with Fred Perry. We have great appreciation for the heritage of the brand as well as their dynamism in guiding the brand towards the future. Their openness to create synergies between both our brands will bring interesting, creative results.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure.