I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
Style is not about the clothes, it’s about the individual.
People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don’t see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle – everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things.
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I’m getting there: I’ve found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now – no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
Menswear is about subtlety. It’s about good style and good taste.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don’t want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
Give me time and I’ll give you a revolution.
It’s the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.
It’s not my vision when I cover a woman’s face with a chador. I got the idea from a ‘National Geographic’ photo. I’m just showing their plight in the world.
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
There is no way back for me now, I’m going to take you on journeys you’ve never dreamed possible.
You’ve got to know the rules to break them.
I don’t want to be too proud, but I have a good personal style.
I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.