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

I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.

You either know fashion or you don't.

Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way

Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.

When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.