I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing. Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good. I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in. I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy. My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track. There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people. I love you if you love me. You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don’t need to do that any more. Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they’re doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.