Care Guide

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. You can only go forward by making mistakes. Attitude is everything. There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising. My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years. Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice. I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do. I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way. Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous. My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific. I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress. Women are women, and hurray for that. It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.