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You can make clothing as art, but I like the idea of my clothes actually being worn and being useful to women.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.