Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. I love a black wedding dress. It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress. I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing. I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut. I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. My breakfast is very important.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush. Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world. Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that. What I hate is nasty, ugly people. My customers are successful workingwomen. My breakfast is very important.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Attitude is everything. I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. I like things simple. I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.