I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

There's a new kind of woman out there…She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how.

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

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

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