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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Fashion is in my blood. Growing up, I was always clacking around the house in my mother's shoes.

I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.