There’s Blood Beneath Every Layer

I Think There Has To Be An Underlying Sexuality. There Has To Be A Perverseness To The Clothes. There Is A Hidden Agenda In The Fragility Of Romance. It's Like A Story Of O. I Am Not Big On Women Looking Naive. There Has To Be A Sinister Aspect, Whether It's Melancholy Of Sadomasochist. I Think Everyone Has A Deep Sexuality, And Sometimes It's Good To Use A Little Of It-and Sometimes A Lot Of It-like A Masquerade.

There Is No Better Designer Than Nature

The Explosion Of Museum Exhibitions Is Only A Mirror Image Of What Has Happened To Fashion Itself This Millennium. With The Force Of Technology, Instant Images And Global Participation, Fashion Has Developed From Being A Passion For A Few To A Fascination - And An Entertainment - For Everybody.

My Friend George And I Were Walking On The Beach In Norfolk, And There Were Thousands Of [razor-clam] Shells. They Were So Beautiful, I Thought I Had To Do Something With Them. So, We Decided To Make [a Dress] Out Of Them. . . . The Shells Had Outlived Their Usefulness On The Beach, So We Put Them To Another Use On A Dress. Then Erin [o’conner] Came Out And Trashed The Dress, So Their Usefulness Was Over Once Again. Kind Of Like Fashion, Really.

People Find My Things Sometimes Aggressive. But I Don't See It As Aggressive. I See It As Romantic, Dealing With A Dark Side Of Personality.