I'm Not Interested In Being Liked.

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.

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.

The Turnover Of Fashion Is Just So Quick And So Throwaway, And I Think That Is A Big Part Of The Problem. There Is No Longevity.

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.

I Feel More Scottish Than Norman.