A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'

Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study, and you have to live your life.

Adidas is a very personal inspiration to me. It has enriched my creative life. It's an exchange between different cultures, different ideas, and most of all, it is teamwork.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

great men take and overtake risk tactically

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.