I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me.

It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it.

I'm not in the fashion business; I'm in the beauty business.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.

Sometimes I'm a psychiatrist and I tell people in my office that my door is open, and if they have a problem to come and talk to me. Sometimes I say, "I have to close the door because I don't want to hear it!"

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and beautiful and fit well.