Q: The construction of your garments is very complex and demands extraordinary skill. Do you always execute your ideas yourself?

A: Sure do. Everything on my site has been made with my hands, machines, sweat and flaking dry blood. Sewing is a contact sport.

I haven’t been sewing much recently, in the past three years I’ve made less than eleven garments under my name. This year is the year of non-product design, charicouture development and robo-coco ideas for the neo-dandy.

Q: Do you have an imaginary customer that you create your clothes for? Who is it?

A: I imagine the slice of unused space between the desk and the wall. The desk is one persons customer, the wall is another, and the slither is mine. I try to unimagine a person. If I can see the garment on anyone in particular I turn and turn again till I can’t see it on anyone, other than a form in itself. This negative space allows for unmade things to be made.

I like to make non-products that have place and a function, not compromise.

Recently I have been thinking about the idea of Situational Design. Create a visual landscape of narrative with landscape and protagonist, then work the idea through that. Sometimes an idea has concepts that overlap but don’t relate other than in the situation of this design — every now and again you can’t explain the links between two different concepts on one piece.

Q: If you could dress any literary character (from a novel or a fairy-tale for example), who would it be?

A: The Golem of Prague, kabbalistic man of mud and stone. Or a robot. Or original Jesus, Rabbi OJ.

It would be fantastic to make robot clothing. I think I would love to dress most of the characters that Bruce Sterling writes. And space suits. Who lives in space?