The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.
Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.
I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.
In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.
You're writing for some version of yourself. You're writing the kinds of things that you like to read or wanted to read at a certain point. So, primarily for most of my career, I've written the kind of criticism that fascinates me. The things I discovered the things that get me going, that I'm excited about.
To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.