If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

In the end I do respond to my own instincts. Sometimes they're successful, and obviously sometimes they're not. But you have to, I think, remain true to what you believe in.

I want 'Vogue' to be pacy, sharp, and sexy - I'm not interested in the super-rich or infinitely leisured. I want our readers to be energetic executive women, with money of their own and a wide range of interests. There is a new kind of woman out there. She's interested in business and money.