When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.
I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.
In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.
Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.
American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.
There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.
That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
