Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.

Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.

I think, in history, everything is about the remix.

When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.