For me, fashion begins in New York.

Even if it doesn't fit the woman, like, let's say a very short skirt, and the woman doesn't have the legs or the height to wear the skirt, but she has to wear it because it's fashionable. Don't do it! If it doesn't look good on you, don't worry about it.

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.