Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.