Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a

I love New York. But the energy is so intense