Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

If you feel well and happy, your face will reflect this, but if you are down in the dumps and having a miserable time, your face will soon show this, too. In fact, you get the face you deserve by the time you're forty, and one of the keys to looking and feeling younger is being active.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

Life is a predator: you have to eat it before it eats you.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.