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

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.