Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality

Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.