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

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

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

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

There's always a pattern in order to make a thing, but the starting point must be something I've never seen before. It's not two-dimensional, but it's like a sample. I work with patterns like a sculptor. I try to get [the team] not to work on a body, [but] to work on a free space, on a table. The work is basically on flat surfaces.

The very, very first thing that I wanted was to make a living - be independent and have a job. It might have come later, that kind of reaction to the boringness of fashion.