I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.

You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.

You have to find your own style, and it's difficult to define what style is. It's not what you're wearing; it's how you wear it. It's something very personal, and it reflects the way you live and your house, the books you read, the art you have.

Fashion is magical, a fantasy. It's madness, and it doesn't last. It's changing all the time.

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

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