I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.