I am a middle-aged opera queen in loafers that makes out I am a 16 year old death metal skater... It's all fake! My hair is fake, my body is fake and my teeth are kind of fake

I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me.

The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated.

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices.

I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.

I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.