When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.