There Is No Way Back

Youth Culture Now Really Looks Back And Embraces The Past, But Keeps It Contemporary But Not Sticking To One Particular Style.

I Am Constantly Trying To Reflect The Way Women Are Treated. It's Hard To Interpret That In Clothes Or In A Show But There's Always An Underlying, Sinister Side To Women's Sexuality In My Work Because Of The Way I Have Seen Women Treated In My Life. Where I Come From, A Woman Met A Man, Had Babies, Moved To Dagenham, Two Up Two Down, Made The Dinner, Went To Bed. That Was My Image Of Women And I Didn't Want That. I Wanted To Get That Out Of My Head.

When You See A Woman Wearing Mcqueen, There’s A Certain Hardness To The Clothes That Makes Her Look Powerful. It Kind Of Fends People Off.

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.

The Reason I'm Patriotic About Scotland Is Because I Think It's Been Dealt A Really Hard Hand. It's Marketed The World Over As . . . Haggis . . . Bagpipes. But No One Ever Puts Anything Back Into It.