I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.