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

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.

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.

I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.

I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.