Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

Men's clothing is more pure in design. It's more simple and has no decoration. Women want that. When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women. But there were no buyers for it. Now there are. I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing

I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.