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

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

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

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

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

You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.

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