I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

The same spirit runs through everything I do.

The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?