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.

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 good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

What matters is how I feel about it, cause if I feel good or bad about it, then the audience will feel good or bad about it and that's just sorta the job.

I always think there will be that time that people will find out that I'm crap at what I do.

I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.

Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.

Being 5' 10", I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.