What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

It's what I say all the time to my girls in the office here: The more they dress for sex, the less they will have love or sex.

I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

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.

You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave. Very important.

Ugly is attractive, ugly is exciting. Maybe because it is newer. The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.