How did you, a kid with no particular experience of fashion, become involved?

When my series of portraits was published in i-D, Marc Ascoli, Yohji's art director at the time, was looking for young photographers to work on the Yohji catalogue which was becoming a bit of a cult thing. One project led very quickly into another...

That was more than a decade ago, how do you feel about fashion now?

It goes in waves. Sometimes it's really boring, there's nothing happening and you can't make anything decent happen and nobody wants to know. And other times it's just kind of rolling along, and you feel that it's actually changing peoples' perceptions of the world around them, their attitudes, and it becomes vital and exciting.