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.

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.

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

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

Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

No matter how sorted you think you are, you will always be surrounded by people who are lost and angry. They will test you time and time again.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

I want to be in cahoots with bands who want to make the record of their dreams.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.