When I started my first collection, I thought to myself, “When you think about putting something on your body, you're always looking for the thing that works right for you.” You're not looking for a label on it that says men, trends, women, dog, cat... It's a fucking garment! So there wasn’t a concept of trying to do something alternative, it was only that I thought, “Shit, this blazer looks great on women, it looks great on a man, so why do I have to be the one that says how you wear it?”
I always learnt that when you create a great design, you can turn it in a million different ways and it's still a great design, no matter what angle you look at it. So the genderless aspect of what I was doing was just a natural fallout of my creation, I never really considered it. The fact that it came to be such a thing, I think it had a lot to do with what's going with society today and the discussion of what gender is, what you have to be, who can go to this bathroom...