I didn’t know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world.
If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.
I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.
Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.
Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It’s got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
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.
My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
Well, I’m very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.
In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!