The greenest thing you could do in fashion, is to buy something great that you’re going to use for years

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 feel unbelievably fortunate. How many people get to do what they always wanted to do and do well with it and continue to be surprised and see amazing places and meet amazing people?

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

I think the trick is, how do you spend time doing it but make it look like you haven't spent time doing it? Over the years you look at women like Lauren Hutton and everyone says: 'She just pulled her hair back and ran out of the door.' I've been in fittings with Lauren and she definitely thinks about it. She just knows how to make it look easy.

Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.

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