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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

I find beauty in melancholy.