I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.
Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.
It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.
Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.
I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.
I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.
I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
I had a book of Bible stories when I was a kid. There was a picture I'd look at twenty times every day: Jacob wrestles with the angel. I don't really remember the story, or why the wrestling --just the picture. Jacob is young and very strong. The ang...
Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.
There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
I just really wanted to do art, except when I was taking those photographs of people I would make the clothes that I would photograph them in so I could control the whole thing.
..and though my internal organs were Barry White, my stamina had skipped CDs and decided to be more Vanilla Ice.
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
