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

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

Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.

For me, one of the most important aspects of my work is to give people something to dream about, just as I used to dream all those years ago as a child looking at beautiful photographs. I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world

I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic