Owens: "The whole fashion thing is so oversaturated."

Owens: "I would really think twice about being a fashion designer if I was young right now, especially being an independent fashion designer the way I started it."

Owens: "I'm really conscious of not doing something just for the sake of moving forward."

Owens: "I had a lot of classical influences. I had classical music and opera and literature, but I also liked sleaze. And putting it together, sleaze and glamour, it just made sense to me."

Owens: "Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is also one of the most attractive things you can do."

Owens: "People ask why I do monochromatic clothes; the reason is because I'm thinking in proportion to the world. In this room, your head is going to look so much more interesting if it's on a monochromatic column. Whereas I think people think of outfits and gets a little too fussy, a little too detailed. I'm always thinking of the line of a person standing with their head in a room and I always feel like a stalk, or a stem, or a pillar is nicer. I always think of everything architecturally."

Owens: "Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit."

Owens: "I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers."

Owens: "Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport."

Owens: "I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life."

Owens: "I don't even know what's brilliant in fashion anymore. There are too many voices."

Owens: "You reach a saturation point where people resent having to share you more with people who they think are not as connected and so they end up with a feeling of resentment."

Owens: "I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna."