Why does fashion matter?
I don’t know if it matters. I always used to wriggle out of the question “Is fashion art?” – Jake Chapman accused me of being bourgeois because I assumed an artist ought to have skill. For most people it is not about fashion, it’s about everyone looking the same, it’s about consumption. I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it? I like my Gold Label, the one that I do. The rest of my stuff comes from very talented people – and I ought not to have said what I have just said – who go to the archive and just rework it.
What about the dark side of the fashion industry – the anorexic models, for example?
It’s not true that these models are all anorexic. They are just young girls who happen to be thin. When they get older they put on a bit of weight or muscle, but maybe the [critics] are right: we shouldn’t have these young ones.
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