The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.