What do you think of artists borrowing from fashion imagery (for example, Vanessa Beecroft’s work)?
With her, it’s great but it really depends on the art. I hated what she did at first, but now I’ve grown to really like it. To be honest, I’m bored with art. I don’t understand half of it and mostly it pisses me off. It pisses me off because perhaps I feel I’m not intelligent enough to understand it. I don’t have the patience to form an opinion about art these days. I’m trying to avoid it. I also think fashion is so much more interesting than art. You are often quoted as being intrigued with the concept of “striving for a perfection that is impossible to attain in real life,” and “uninterested in glamour.” Yet in your previous collections, it is precisely this glamour and elegance in the feminine silhouette that is often conveyed in your garments. Do you feel that a set idea of fashion has been deeply engrained socially and culturally, in our mindset as something eternally frivolous and dissolving? I’m interested in the aspirations that we have for glamour, not the glamour itself. I th
