If you look back throughout history from the ancient Egyptians onwards, most cultures started making clothing from a very basic premise: a single piece of cloth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.
My touchstone started out being - and is still - exploring the ways by which to make clothing from a single piece of cloth.
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
All of my work stems from the simplest of ideas that go back to the earliest civilizations: making clothing from one piece of cloth. It is my touchstone.
We just make clothes, but for some, that's an important thing.
Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.