People Are So Codified -

Designers Are To Be In Connection With What's Happening With The Movement Of Society.

I Have Always Been Drawn To Designing Fashions That Are Rebellious, Like Black Leather Jackets On Suburban Kinds, A Corset Dress, Punk, Blue Jeans. I Love That. Fashion Changes All The Time, And What Is Considered Extreme Or Elegant Or Luxurious (or Not Luxurious) Is Changing All The Time.

I Know What I Am Able And Not Able To Do. Fashion? Ok. Fashion... Clothes In Theatre, In An Opera, In A Concert - All That I Love. To Make A Movie Myself... No!

When I First Started To Do Fashion Shows I Didn't Have The Budget To Hire Top Models So I Would Cast Women Who Inspired Me, And Ask Them To Walk How They Walked. I Was Doing A Mise En Scène, Which For Me Was Normal. I Love For People To See My Clothes, But It Was More About The Attitude Of The Girls. The Revues Of The Late 19th Century/early 20th Century Were Very Much A Reflection Of What Was Happening In Society And Politics, And For Me That Is Also The Role Of The Fashion Designer.

What Is Masculine And What Is Feminine, Anyway? Why Should Men Not Show That They Can Be Fragile Or Seductive? I Am Only Happy When There Is No Discrimination.