Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.