Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

You can only go forward by making mistakes.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

I'm not interested in being liked.

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

I used flowers because they die. My mood was darkly romantic at the time.

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.