I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
It is beautiful to be what you are.
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.
Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.
I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.
Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.
For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.
Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I tried!
My eccentricity became direction.
My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.
When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women who inspired me, and ask them to walk how they walked. I was doing a mise en scène, which for me was normal. I love for people to see my clothes, but it was more about the attitude of the girls. The revues of the late 19th century/early 20th century were very much a reflection of what was happening in society and politics, and for me that is also the role of the fashion designer.
I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
Dressing is a pleasure; clothes are not a joke.
Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.
I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.
People are so codified - it's sad.
