I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension within seconds. You can be vomiting, you can detest who you are, detest the world, detest every single thing, and the next moment you are in the light and you glow. You forget everything, and you are just flying. When you're onstage, you are someone else. Beyoncé is very conscious of this. She said to me, "I'm another person when I'm onstage." And I said, "Oh yes, you are! You are an animal when you are onstage. You are a stage animal."

I built a global brand Mugler, and we did things that inspired so many people. I'm proud to have helped some amazing people express themselves in new ways. What I appreciate most in the world is to have met and befriended incredible geniuses, like David Bowie and Cyd Charisse and Celia Cruz, who was the goddess of salsa. I saw people kneeling on the streets for her. Which they did for me in Japan. That was really embarrassing.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.