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

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.

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

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

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.

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.