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Let Me Not Forget The Use Of My Own Hands, That Of A Craftsman With Eyes... That Reflect The Technology Around Me.

There's Beauty In Anger, And Anger For Me Is A Passion.

I Came To Terms With Not Fitting In A Long Time Ago. I Never Really Fitted In. I Don't Want To Fit In. And Now People Are Buying Into That.

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.

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.