In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.

I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!

I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture. And you still have your hands to contend with. If you're 70, no one is going to think you're 35. The whole concept is kind of stupid.

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!