I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment.
My fascination has been the space between cloth and the body, and using a two-dimensional element to clothe a three-dimensional form.
I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.
Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
