Give Me Time And I'll Give You

Some Designers Are So Airy-fairy People Can't Connect With Them. I Hope People Can Relate To Me, To A Normal Person Who Just Happens To Be A Fashion Designer, That People Can Take Me As They Find Me. It's Not The Designer's Job To Care About What People Think. Whatever Else I've Done, I've Never Tried To Be Something That I'm Not.

What I Do Is Look At Ancient African Tribes, And The Way They Dress. The Rituals Of How They Dress. . . . There's A Lot Of Tribalism In The Collections.

Birds In Flight Fascinate Me. I Admire Eagles And Falcons. I’m Inspired By A Feather But Also Its Color, Its Graphics, Its Weightlessness And Its Engineering. It’s So Elaborate. In Fact I Try And Transpose The Beauty Of A Bird To Women.

Life To Me Is A Bit Of A (brothers) Grimm Fairy Tale.

I Can't Get Sucked Into That Celebrity Thing, Because I Think It's Just Crass.