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

In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

To be in Vogue has to mean something

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

You can’t really worry too much…about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.

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.

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