Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Sometimes I think I’m the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you do it. I don't understand people who do memoirs when they're 20. I think most people need a little more time than 20 years to become the person they are. In fact, that process of becoming who you are is still ongoing when you get older, where you go, "Let's see where my next 10 years is going to take me." S

Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid