The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.