Anyone who consistently makes you feel bad is not helping you get better.
We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. At the end of the Roman era, there was this whole move against togas, because that was the signifier of the Roman Empire. In the same way, the '60s were a reaction against the '50s and so on. But now we've been feeding on a sort of cadaver. At the moment, we're just endlessly recycling the past.
I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour
I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.
Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.