I've Never Been Tempted To Do These

You Get Two Weeks After You Do A Shoe Where You Can Test Whether It's Good Or Not - If You're Going To Like It In 20 Years. Then I Know That It's Going To Be My Shoe For A Long Time. That Doesn't Happen Very Often, But It Happens.

You'd See Extraordinary-looking People Around In The '70s. It Was So Exciting! You'd Have Mad People, Like Gerlinde Kostiff Riding Around On Her Bicycle With A Huge Hat. Everybody Was Doing Things. I Don't Have Any Bad Memories Of That Period.

I'm A Doodler. It Was My First Job As A Boy, And I Still Do It. At Night I Keep A Block Of Paper And A Pencil With A Huge Piece Of String Next To Me. When I Have An Idea, I Grab The String And Just Doodle.

The Only People That Come To My Mind In The Last Years Are Lee Mcqueen And John Galliano. Truly, Truly . . . How Do I Say? Full Of Ideas. Full Of The Smell. They Just Had This Incredible Passion For What They Did.

Some People Just Use Beautiful Things To Just Shop Or To Have A Tribal Feeling - 'oh, Blah, Blah, Blah, I'm Wearing Hermes; Blah, Blah, Blah, I'm Wearing Saint Laurent; Blah-blah Blah' - Because It's Like A Need, A Tribe, Recognition: 'ahh, My Rolex.' But I Run Away From Anything Which Is Too Recognizable - It's My Nature.