I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

I hate the whole concept of comfort!

I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.

A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.